Nazi knifeman stabbed asylum seeker over small boats frustration

A Nazi-obsessed knifeman stabbed an asylum seeker at a hotel because he was “angry and frustrated” at small boat Channel crossings.

Callum Ulysses Parslow, who has Hitler’s signature tattooed on his left forearm, was found guilty of attempted murder on Friday.

In April, he stabbed Nahom Hagos in the chest and hand at the Pear Tree Inn at Hindlip, Worcestershire, after buying a “specialist” £770 knife online.

CCTV footage from the hotel showed Parslow, 32, arriving at the building on foot before coming across Mr Hagos, who is originally from Eritrea, eating a meal in the conservatory. Parslow, wearing a dark hoodie, asked the 25-year-old where he was from before launching at him with the knife.

Leicester crown court heard that Mr Hagos suffered wounds to his chest, including an 8cm gash, and the back of his hand as he tried to fend off Parslow.

The CCTV footage showed Mr Hagos pushing a table between himself and Parslow before fleeing from the room with his hand covered in blood. Parslow, a former supermarket worker, then continued to chase his victim in the hotel car park.

Mr Hagos was able to run back into the main reception area, where the manager locked the front door, although Parslow later re-entered the building through another door, apparently searching for further victims.

He then ran off towards a canal and discarded the knife before being spotted by police officers with what appeared to be blood on his hands. Bodycam footage captured two officers running towards him on the towpath before forcing him to the ground and handcuffing him.

The hotel manager and a builder used a van to take Mr Hagos to hospital in Worcester, as they felt he was losing too much blood.

Parslow, who denied attempted murder but admitted wounding, told jurors he made a four and a half-mile journey to the rural hotel on April 2 to stab “one of the Channel migrants” because he was “angry and frustrated” at small boat crossings.

The court heard that as police closed in, Parslow attempted to tweet a 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 jury 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”, saying they were responsible for demonising Christianity, white people and European culture.

Prosecutor Tom Storey KC said a police search of Parslow’s flat in 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.

“Over the weeks leading up to this event, the defendant had planned what he was going to do, researching hotels which were being used to house asylum seekers on behalf of the Government,” he told the court.

Parslow also researched “the worst places to get stabbed” and whether neck wounds were always fatal, the jury heard.

Blood with a DNA profile matching that of Mr Hagos was found on the blade of the knife abandoned by Parslow, whose email address included the phrase “lordadolfreborn”.

Blood with DNA matching the victim's was found on the blade of the knife abandoned by Parslow
Blood with DNA matching the victim’s was found on the blade of the knife abandoned by Parslow - West Midlands Police

Jurors were told Parslow had Hitler’s signature tattooed on his arm “in order to demonstrate his affiliation to the ideals of the leader of the German Nazi Party”.

In his evidence to the court, Parslow claimed the Nazi armband found at his flat was part of a fancy dress outfit and his tattoo of Hitler’s signature was an attempt to annoy communist sympathisers.

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.

Jurors deliberated for four hours and 18 minutes before finding Parslow guilty of attempted murder. He was remanded in custody and will be sentenced by Mr Justice Dove at Woolwich crown court on a date to be fixed.