A Scots “neo-nazi” who plotted a series of terrorist events after gathering an “armoury” in his home is set to be sentenced today.
Former journalist, Alan Edward was found guilty of intending to commit an act of terrorism which would include an incident of “serious violence”.
A jury heard in September that the 54-year-old had discussed an attack on a Scottish LBGT group. Armed cops found a barrage of weapons at his home in September 2022.
Officers from Police Scotland discovered weapons and equipment including a samurai sword, 14 knives – some with Nazi and SS insignia – machetes, a tomahawk, knuckledusters, a catapult, an extendible baton and a stun-gun.
Edwards was also in possession of an air pistol modelled on the “James Bond” Walther PPK within his two-storey home in Redding, Falkirk. Edwards was also keeping an SS-style skull mask, goggles and a respirator fighting gloves with specially-hardened knuckles, pellets, ball bearings, and hunting tips for crossbow arrows.
Prosecutors branded his collection “an armoury”.
The High Court in Stirling heard earlier this year that Edward possessed and expressed “a set of ideals with a neo-Nazi outlook, incorporating notions of white supremacy, the notion of racial purity of whites, racism, anti-Semitism, and hatred of homosexuals and transgender people”.
He was found guilty of racism, anti-Semitism, Holocaust denial, and statutory breach of the peace.
Prosecutor Paul Kearney KC, the advocate depute, said Edward was “a man who with clear neo-Nazi ideals… preparing for an act of terrorism which would include an ideologically-driven incident of serious violence”.
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