Scots Neo-Nazi caught with chilling haul of terrorist 'armoury' plotted attack on LGBT group
dailyrecord.co.ukA Neo-Nazi white supremacist who amassed terrorist "armoury" at his Stirlingshire home was today facing years in prison.Alan Edward, a former journalist who glorified Hitler, was found guilty of a series of terrorist crimes including intending to commit an act of terrorism.The 54-year-old had discussed an attack on a Scottish LBGT group, a jury heard.
Edward, who had nearly 28,000 followers on social media, denied the Holocaust, mocked the murder of George Floyd, invited support for a proscribed far-right terrorist group, and told his on-line disciples, "the quickest way to someone's heart is with a high power 7.62mm round".A document found on his computer referred to Norwegian neo-Nazi mass murderer Anders Breivik as "Saint Anders".The High Court in Stirling heard 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 arrested after armed police surrounded his end-terrace two-storey home in Falkirk before dawn in September 2022 and broke down his front door.They found weapons and equipment including a crossbow with telescopic sights, 14 knives, some with Nazi and SS insignia, machetes, a tomahawk, a Samurai sword, knuckledusters, a catapult, an extendable baton and a stun gun.They also found an air pistol modelled on the "James Bond" Walther PPK, 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 said this amounted to "an armoury".Edward also had an indoor cannabis plantation he was growing to sell.Checks on his WhatsApp account found he had been messaging an associate in nearby Grangemouth – identified only as "Pello" – about the proposed attack on the LBGT group, which met in Falkirk.In a series of exchanges described by the prosecution as "incredibly sinister",