Man stabbed asylum seeker in ‘small boats protest’

A man who stabbed an 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 17 January.

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 claiming 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.