Man stabbed asylum seeker in ‘small boats protest’

A man who stabbed a asylum seeker at a hotel in a “protest” against small boat crossings has been found guilty of attempted murder.

Callum Ulysses Parslow, 32, stabbed 25-year-old Nahom Hagos in the chest and hand at the Pear Tree Inn at Hindlip in Worcestershire, Leicester Crown Court was told.

During the trial, Parslow, who admitted wounding, said he had made the four-and-a-half-mile journey to the hotel on 2 April to stab “one of the Channel migrants” because he was “angry and frustrated”.

He was remanded in custody and will be sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court on a date to be fixed.

Mr Hagos is a 25-year-old Eritrean national who has been granted leave to remain in the UK until November 2028.

The trial was told Parslow, who has an Adolf Hitler’s signature tattooed on his left forearm, tried to send a post to X before his arrest which claimed he “just did my duty to England” by trying to “exterminate” his victim.

The three-week hearing was told how the white supremacist stabbed Mr Hagos, after buying a “specialist” £770 knife online.

Prosecutor Tom Storey KC said a police search of Parslow’s flat in Bromyard Terrace, Worcester, led to the recovery of a second knife in a sheath, an axe, a metal baseball bat, a red armband bearing a swastika, a Nazi-era medallion and copies of Mein Kampf.

The trial was told Parslow, who wrote his own “manifesto,” ran off towards a canal after the stabbing, where he was spotted with what appeared to be blood on his hands.

The court heard that as police closed in, he tried to tweet the manifesto document, tagging in Tommy Robinson and prominent politicians including Sir Keir Starmer, Rishi Sunak, Nigel Farage and Suella Braverman.

But the message failed to send because he had copied in too many recipients.

In the document, the court heard, Parslow railed against what he termed the “evil enemies of nature and of England” who he identified as “the Jews, the Marxists and the globalists” he said were responsible for demonising Christianity, white people and European culture.

Mr Storey said it was clear the manifesto was intended for publication online, as it ended with a list of X handles or tags, which also featured those of Ukip and news outlets including the BBC and GB News.

Details of the trial could not be reported until a court order was lifted on Friday, after Parslow pleaded guilty to an unconnected sexual offence and two charges under the Malicious Communications Act.

The head of West Midlands counter-terrorism unit, Det Ch Supt Alison Hurst, said it was “a carefully-planned violent attack with an individual with extreme right-wing mindset”.

During a conversation, the victim told Parslow he was from eastern Africa, at which point “the offender took a knife out and stabbed him to the chest and to the hand,” she stated.

Det Ch Supt Hurst said the victim required extensive medical treatment in hospital.

“Thankfully, he has physically made a full recovery but emotionally, understandably, he is still struggling and obviously feels very shocked from this horrendous, traumatic event that he has experienced.”