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A ginger-haired neo-Nazi who wrote of assassinating Prince Charles with a sniper rifle so Prince Harry could become king was convicted at the Old Bailey of preparing acts of terrorism.
DANIEL SANNUM LAUTEN/AFP/Getty Images In his writing, Mark Colbourne compared himself to Anders Breivik (r, ), the Norway terrorist who killed 77 people in 2011.
Colbourne, 37, showed no reaction when a jury handed down a conviction months after an initial trial earlier this year ended with no verdict, The Guardian reported.
He wrote: “I was waiting for the opportunity to kill. Let it be Prince Charles which would be good”.
A British court has convicted a 37-year-old English man of plotting to kill as many non-redheads as possible with the deadly poison cyanide after hearing that he felt “belittled” by society as a Caucasian with red hair.
Prosecutor Annabel Darlow claimed Colborne had planned to spray cyanide at ethnic minorities to publicise his racist beliefs around the world.
Mark Colborne, dubbed the “ginger extremist” by British media, was initially arrested last summer after his half brother and mother, in whose house he lived in the city of Southampton, discovered a stockpile of chemicals and equipment that could be used to make cyanide under the bed in his “extremely cluttered” room.
Comparing himself to other right-wing extremists such as Breivik, he wrote:
“I’m looking for major retribution, a mass terrorist attack which will bring to the attention our pain not just mine but my brothers around the world.”
On 3 June, Kevin Colborne came across receipts for chemicals his brother had bought while preparing to decorate the home.
In his defence, Colborne dismissed his diary entries as “angry rants” made when he was off medication for depression.
Colborne had faced a retrial after a jury failed to agree a verdict in May.
He also acquired manuals entitled Assorted Nasties, Silent Death and The Poor Man’s James Bond, jurors were told.
“This is a very unusual case involving, if I may say it, a very odd person”, said the judge.
Colborne will be sentenced on 3 November. Speaking to the police, Colborne explained, “Fantasies about killing people as a hit man – that was my number one fantasy”.
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He then added, “I would like to thank and praise Colborne’s family who were courageous in coming forward to tell us about concerns they had about his behaviour”.
