Bristol<\/a> in August last year.<\/p>\nBristol crown court heard she had been motivated by neo-Nazi extremism and had been in contact with far-right groups.<\/p>\n
Burns had told a man on a dating app to \u201ckill all Jews and Muslims\u201d and had searched for information online about jihad, the 2024 Southport stabbings, \u201cJewish supremacy\u201d and Nazi Germany.<\/p>\n
Serena Gates KC, prosecuting, told the court: \u201cThe prosecution case is that the defendant had an extreme rightwing mindset and wanted Jews and Muslims to be killed and non-whites to flee or be expelled from the UK.<\/p>\n
Alina Burns pictured near the shop in Bristol. She was arrested by Avon and Somerset police officers who were nearby at the time of the attack. Photograph: Counter Terrorism Policing<\/p>\n
\u201cThe day before the attack the defendant was watching videos of SS marches and sent an email called \u2018The dawn of civil war\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
At a previous hearing, Burns, of Bristol, admitted attempted murder and three charges of having an article with a blade or point \u2013 specifically an axe, a scalpel and two darts.<\/p>\n
She had denied a charge of engaging in conduct in preparation of terrorist acts, contrary to the Terrorism Act.<\/p>\n
The crown argued that despite accepting the pleas, there remained a terrorist motivation to the attack, which was accepted by the judge, Mrs Justice Lambert.<\/p>\n
The axe confiscated by police. Photograph: Counter Terrorism Policing<\/p>\n
Passing sentence, the judge said: \u201cI have no doubt that you are a dangerous offender and you remain deeply entrenched in your abnormal belief system.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou communicated with a man on an online dating app in which at one stage you expressed the desire to kill all the Jews and Muslims in Britain, and also carry out a plan where you wished to take all the glory for carrying this out.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were Telegram chats with the Patriotic Alternative, a far-right group.\u201d<\/p>\n
The judge imposed a custodial sentence of 15-and-a-half years and an additional four-year period on licence.<\/p>\n
Andrew Langdon KC, defending, said Burns had experienced a difficult childhood due to her family being made homeless and living in a series of temporary accommodation.<\/p>\n
Langdon said that despite both of Burns\u2019s parents being teachers, the teenager had stopped attending full-time education at 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A neo-Nazi obsessed teenager who tried to behead a Kurdish barber with an axe because she wanted to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-586351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}