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 dubbed 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 at a rural hotel called the Pear Tree Inn in Hindlip on April 2.
The computer programmer was detained on the Worcester and Birmingham canal, holding his phone and with his hands covered in blood, about to send the far-right manifesto out on the X social media platform.
Police declared 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 offence of sending offensive messages of a sexual and racist nature.
The Pear Tree Inn had been used to house migrants for three years but was undergoing repairs and his victim, a former resident, was there by chance to visit the manager and borrow a bicycle.
Parslow, who had a tattoo of Hitler’s signature on his forearm, had written a manifesto which he planned to send to the media and recipients including the far-right activist Tommy Robinson and Nigel Farage, leader of the Reform party.
He used the X social media site to put out ‘overtly racist’, antisemitic and Islamophobic material in the names @cyberpunknazi and @iambutagardener.
Parslow wrote a three-page document in which he declared: ‘I just did 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 to the great garden of England.’
Parslow claimed he had ‘removed the weeds’ and added: ‘I exterminated the harmful, invasive species; I allowed the ecosystem of England to flourish just that little bit more.’
In the document Parslow railed against the ‘evil enemies of nature and of England: the Jews, the Marxists, and the Globalists’ who he accused of being responsible, for ‘demonising Christianity, White people and all European culture.’
He claimed they had been ‘actively facilitating Muslims and Africans to disproportionately gangrape, torture and traumatise White women and children.’
On a number of occasions Parslow referred to the country being ruled by ‘jewpuppets’ who had made England ‘unrecognisable’ and proclaimed: ‘Do not let the Great N**erfication of England go unpunished.’
‘There are literally millions of young Englishmen who envy me for my actions today,’ he wrote, before issuing a ‘call to arms’ to prevent England being transformed into a ‘province of Global Mordor’ – a reference to The Lord of the Rings.
‘Arise! Hurtle towards glory!!’ Parslow concluded.
Included at the end of the document was a list of people’s X handles that he intended 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 had conducted 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 searched for ‘Finsbury Park attack’ in which Darren Osborne drove at worshippers outside a mosque in North London in 2017, killing one and for Brenton Tarrant who killed 52 people in an attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand in 2019.
He had also looked up ‘human artery diagram’, ‘worst places to get stabbed’, ‘are neck wounds always lethal’, 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 ‘lying in wait.’
He had also viewed a website or link to a map which purported to show the locations of all hotels in England which were being used to house asylum seekers.
On X he frequently referred to people by the term ‘ni**er’ and referred to the ‘ni**erfication’ of Britain or of Europe and to members of non-white races as ‘orcs’, another term from The Lord of the Rings.
In one tweet, he asserted ‘Brenton Tarrant is a hero’, ridding ‘Middle-Earth of the invading orc armies’.
In another, he wrote: ‘Our jewpuppet overlords will continue importing 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 stated: ‘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, specifically an extreme right-wing ideology, which had led him to identify and target his victim on the basis of 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 weapon he used had cost him $1,000 from specialist knifemaker in the US, which he had ordered over the internet 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 the reception area and lock the door.
Mr Hagos was rushed to hospital in a van by workers who were refurbishing the hotel who spotted Parslow on a nearby tow path and phoned the police.
Hagos was found to have an 8cm wound in his left chest area but the knife had not penetrated any of his vital organs
‘The fact that it did not do so is, you may think, a matter of pure luck,’ Mr Storey told the jury.
He had to have surgery under a general anaesthetic where the knife had slashed tendons on his hand.
Mr Storey told the court: ‘This was a deliberate attack, and one which was carried out with the intention, very simply, of killing Mr Hagos.’
Parslow pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm but denied attempted murder.
He claimed he was not racist and wanted to be arrested because he was being evicted from his flat after having losing his job.
When West Mercia police searched Parslow’s flat in relation to the pervious offence on December 13 last year, they seized his phone, laptop, a medallion and ring with the Swastika and four far-right texts, including two copies of Hitler’s Mein Kampf.
It is understood that Parslow was subsequently referred to Counter-Terrorism Policing West Midlands who said they had reacted ‘based on risk and prioritisation, and on the threat presented.’
Parslow had previously been jailed for 30 months In February 2018 for seven offences of stalking and three offences of sending an offensive communication.
Detective Chief Supt Alison Hurst, head of Counter-Terrorism Policing West Midlands, described Parslow as a ‘very violent individual’ who was motivated by ‘hate and extremism’ to commit an ‘abhorrent crime.’
She said members of the public who took Hagos to hospital ‘acted really spontaneously and very promptly in order to save the victim’s life.’