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A neo-Nazi obsessed teenager has been jailed for more than 15 years after attempting to behead a Kurdish barber with an axe. <\/p>\n
Alina Burns, 19, launched the brutal attack on Mohammed Mahmoodi, 27, outside his shop in Bedminster, Bristol last August.<\/p>\n
Bristol Crown Court heard Burns was motivated by extreme neo-Nazi ideology and had established contact with far-right groups. <\/p>\n
Evidence presented included her telling a man on a dating app to “kill all Jews and Muslims,” alongside online searches for “Jihad, the Southport stabbings, Jewish supremacy and Nazi Germany.”<\/p>\n
Serena Gates KC, prosecuting, told the court: \u201cThe prosecution case is that the defendant had an extreme right-wing mindset and wanted Jews and Muslims to be killed and non-whites to flee or be expelled from the UK.<\/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 Lynton Road, Bristol, pleaded guilty to 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
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Burns pleaded guilty to attempted murder and three charges of having an article with a blade or point (Ben Birchall\/PA)<\/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 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe leader of the Patriotic Alternative has made highly racist and homophobic comments in public.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou also accessed large quantities of material reflecting extreme right-wing ideology.\u201d<\/p>\n
The judge said Burns passed the threshold for an extended sentence for dangerousness.<\/p>\n
She imposed a custodial sentence of 15-and-a-half years and an additional four-year period on licence.<\/p>\n
Burns will be able to apply for parole after serving two thirds of the prison sentence.<\/p>\n
The incident happened on the afternoon of August 2 when Burns approached Mr Mahmoodi from behind and swung the axe \u2013 that she had bought for the attack \u2013 at his neck, causing a small wound.<\/p>\n
Mr Mahmoodi, who was much bigger than the 5ft 2in Burns, was able to wrestle the axe away from her before she could strike him again.<\/p>\n
A nearby police officer heard the commotion and went to the scene in East Street and arrested Burns.<\/p>\n
Asked why she had attacked the Kurdish-Iranian man, Burns told the officer: \u201cBecause I wanted to cut his neck.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would do it again, but to succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n
She later told a Mental Health Act assessor she knew Mr Mahmoodi worked in the barbers, which was involved \u201cin money laundering\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know of him, he works in the Turkish barbers, I think they are money laundering and the police aren\u2019t doing anything about it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo if I done this, then maybe the police would investigate the shop.\u201d<\/p>\n
Miss Gates told the court: \u201cShe further asked if it had been on the news yet.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe said she wanted to influence people to do the same thing, but be successful.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe stated she would do it again, but to succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n
After Burns was arrested, police discovered her links to far-right groups and extremism.<\/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 Southport stabbings, Jewish supremacy and Nazi Germany (Ben Birchall\/PA)<\/p>\n
Five months before the attack she had used an online dating app to speak with a man, who she told: \u201cI am the embodiment of hell and desire to amplify everything I bear witness too.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t want to end my life anymore. I plan on bringing change to the UK through means I can\u2019t detail.\u201d<\/p>\n
She later told him to \u201ckill all the Jews and Muslims in Britain please\u201d.<\/p>\n
The man, who was not identified in court, reported the exchange to the police, the court was told.<\/p>\n
Detectives found at her home handwritten notes about the \u201cspread of Islam\u201d, how to use fertiliser to manufacture explosives, and nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n
There were also notes about German SS units serving in the Second World War, Adolf Hitler\u2019s book Mein Kampf, and the nationalist novel The Turner Diaries.<\/p>\n
On her notebook computer was a copy of a terrorist handbook with information about chemicals and IEDs.<\/p>\n
Burns had also used the Telegram messaging app to contact a representative of the British far-right group Patriotic Alternative.<\/p>\n
In a victim personal statement Mr Mahmoodi said he had fled Iran because of persecution and had sought asylum in the UK.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter this attack my life has completely changed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI cannot move my neck easily and the physical reminder of the scar where I was nearly killed is a daily reminder.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy mental health has suffered and I am living in fear.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy sleep in impacted and I wake up with bad dreams and nightmares of being attacked from behind with an axe.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am still living with the effects of the attack more mentally than I could have imagined.\u201d<\/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
\u201cThis is plainly a disturbing case for a number of reasons,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy Ladyship\u2019s primary concern will be for Mr Mahmoodi and for society.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Langdon said that despite both of Burns\u2019s parents being teachers, the teenager had stopped attending full-time education at 14.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe last three of four years of her life are spiralling descent and isolation, despite living with her family,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-586758","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\/586758","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=586758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}