A Nazi-obsessed terrorist who stabbed a visitor to a hotel used by asylum seekers had prepared a terrorist manifesto to be released after the attack in which he called himself ‘The Gardener’, it can now be reported.
Callum Ulysses Parslow, 32, from Worcester, stabbed a 25-year-old Eritrean asylum seeker twice in the chest during the attack on a rural hotel called the Pear Tree Inn in Hindlip on April 2.
The computer programmer was held at the Worcester and Birmingham Canal, with his phone in his hand and his hands covered in blood, about to broadcast the far-right manifesto on social media platform X.
Police have labeled the attack a terrorist incident, but the case can only be reported after a judge lifted reporting restrictions when Parslow was found guilty of attempted murder and indicated he would plead guilty to a previous offense of sending offensive messages of a sexual and racist nature.
Callum Ulysses Parslow, 32, from Worcester, stabbed a 25-year-old Eritrean asylum seeker twice in the chest during the attack on a rural hotel called the Pear Tree Inn in Hindlip on April 2.
The Pear Tree Inn was used to house migrants for three years but was being repaired and his victim, a former resident, happened to be there to visit the manager and borrow a bicycle.
Parslow, who had a tattoo of Hitler’s signature on his forearm, had written a manifesto that he planned to send to media and recipients including far-right activist Tommy Robinson and Reform Party leader Nigel Farage.
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Parslow wrote a three-page document in which he declared: ‘I have just done my duty to England’ and added: ‘They will call me a terrorist, they will call me an extremist: I am neither. I am but a gardener tending the great garden of England.’
Parslow claimed he had “removed the weeds,” adding, “I eradicated the noxious, invasive species; I have made England’s ecosystem flourish just that little bit more.’
In the document, Parslow denounced the “evil enemies of nature and of England: the Jews, the Marxists and the globalists,” whom he accused of being responsible for “demonizing Christianity, white people and the whole of European culture.” .
The computer programmer was held at the Worcester and Birmingham Canal, with his phone in his hand and his hands covered in blood, about to send the far-right manifesto to the social media platform X.
He alleged that they had “actively facilitated Muslims and Africans to disproportionately rape, torture and traumatize white women and children.”
On a number of occasions, Parslow referred to the country being ruled by ‘jewpuppets’ who had made England ‘unrecognisable’ and exclaimed: ‘Let not the Great Destruction of England go unpunished.’
“There are literally millions of young Englishmen who envy me today for my actions,” he wrote, before issuing a “call to arms” to prevent England from being turned into a “province of Global Mordor” – a reference to The Lord of the Rings.
‘Get up! Swing to glory!!” Parslow concluded.
At the end of the document was a list of the X handles of people he wanted to tag when he posted the document online.
The names included far-right activists Tommy Robinson, Paul Golding, Nick Griffin and actor Laurence Fox, along with politicians Nigel Farage, Richard Tice, Donald Trump, Suella Braverman, Lee Anderson, Liz Truss, Michael Gove, David Cameron, Kier Starmer , Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson.
Among the searches he carried out online was one for Jo Cox, the MP who was killed in a far-right terrorist attack outside her constituency office in West Yorkshire in 2016.
Parslow had also sought ‘Finsbury Park attack’ in which Darren Osborne drove at worshipers outside a north London mosque in 2017, killing one, and Brenton Tarrant who killed 52 people in an attack on two mosques in Christchurch in 2019 , New Zealand.
He had also looked up “human artery diagram,” “the worst places to get stabbed,” “are neck wounds always fatal” and “14 words” – a reference to a far-right slogan.
On his phone he had searched for ‘life imprisonment in England and Wales’, ‘murder’ and ‘lurking’.
He had also viewed a website or link to a map that would show the locations of all hotels in England used to house asylum seekers.
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Police and forensic officers at the Pear Tree Inn & Country Hotel near Worcester on April 2, 2024
In one tweet, he claimed that “Brenton Tarrant is a hero,” who “liberated Middle-Earth from the invading orc armies.”
In another, he wrote: “Our Jew puppet overlords will continue to import hundreds of millions of violent ni**ers this century alone,” described in court as an example of the so-called “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory.
Some of his tweets advocated the use of extreme violence against immigrants, including one in which he said: “England is f***ed unless we do something now while we still have the numbers.”
Tom Storey KC, prosecuting, told the jury at Leicester Crown Court: ‘Parslow’s attack was ‘carefully planned and driven by a particular ideology, in particular a far-right ideology, which had led him to identify and target his victim are based on his ethnicity.’
Parslow made his way to the cafeteria where he approached his victim and asked where he was from before going to the toilet and emerging with a knife.
The folding gun he used had cost him $1,000 from a specialist knife maker in the US, which he ordered online and had delivered by UPS, the court heard.
After stabbing his victim twice, he chased him into the car park with the knife in his hand before Nahom Hagos managed to return to reception and lock the door.
Mr Hagos was rushed to hospital in a van by workers who were refurbishing the hotel. They saw Parslow on a nearby towpath and called the police.
Hagos was found to have an 8 cm wound in his left chest, but the knife had not penetrated any of his vital organs
“That this is not the case is, one would think, a matter of sheer luck,” Mr Storey told the jury.
He had to be operated under general anesthesia, during which time the knife severed the tendons of his hand.
Mr Storey told the court: ‘This was a deliberate attack and one carried out with the simple intention of killing Mr Hagos.’
Parslow pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm but denied attempted murder.
He claimed he was not a racist and wanted to be arrested because he was evicted from his flat after losing his job.
When West Mercia police searched Parslow’s flat in connection with the transparent offense on December 13 last year, they seized his phone, laptop, a Swastika locket and ring and four far-right text messages, including two copies of Hitler’s Mein Kampf.
It is understood Parslow was then referred to Counter-Terrorism Policing West Midlands, who said they had responded ‘based on risk and priorities, and based on the threat presented’.
Parslow was previously sentenced to 30 months in prison in February 2018 for seven offenses of stalking and three offenses of sending offensive communications.
Detective Chief Supt Alison Hurst, head of Counter-Terrorism Policing West Midlands, described Parslow as a ‘highly violent individual’ who was motivated by ‘hatred and extremism’ to commit an ‘abhorrent crime’.
She said members of the public who took Hagos to hospital “acted very spontaneously and very quickly to save the victim’s life.”