> ## Content Index
> Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further.

# ‘Neo-Nazi’ with armoury of weapons, including 14 knives and a crossbow, found guilty of planning a terrorist attack on gay and trans people
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/neo-nazi-with-armoury-of-weapons-including-14-knives-and-a-crossbow-found-guilty-of-planning-a-terrorist-attack-on-gay-and-trans-people/
- Published: 2024-09-17T14:00:44.000Z
- Updated: 2024-09-17T12:55:03.000Z
- Description: A man found with an ‘armoury’ including a crossbow and 14 knives has been found guilty of planning a terrorist attack on gay and transgender people. Described in court as having ‘a neo-Nazi outlook’, Alan Edward, 54, amassed a collection of weaponry, including a crossbow with telescopic sights, 14 k
- Author: Graham Robson
- Tags: Hate Crime, LGBT, LGBTQ, Scotland

A man found with an ‘armoury’ including a crossbow and 14 knives has been found guilty of planning a terrorist attack on gay and transgender people.

Described in court as having ‘a neo-Nazi outlook’, **Alan Edward**, 54, amassed a collection of weaponry, 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, at his home in **Redding**, Stirlingshire.

Edward was found to have discussed attacking gay people in a series of ‘incredibly sinister’ WhatsApp messages with an associate and promoted the proscribed extreme right wing group **National Action** online.

Edward, who had nearly 28,000 followers on social media, denied the Holocaust, mocked the murder of **George Floyd** and railed against Jews, black people and gays.

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.’

Prosecutor **Paul Kearney** KC, the advocate depute, said Edward was ‘a man who with clear neo-Nazi ideals preparing for an act of terrorism which would include an ideologically-driven incident of serious violence’.

The court heard that checks on his WhatsApp account found he had been messaging an associate in nearby **Grangemouth** – identified only as “Pello” – about a proposed attack on an LGBTQ+ group, which met in Falkirk.

In a series of exchanges described by the prosecution as ‘incredibly sinister’, he wrote: ‘They have been pushing their luck for years, now they will pay in blood.’

He added: ‘I hate them all I really do. Hunting time is nearly here, yayyy.

‘We should get masked up and go do a few of them in at their little gay club.’

A jury found Edward, guilty of four charges under the Terrorism Act – inviting support for a proscribed organisation; possession of weaponry, ammunition and equipment for the commission, preparation or instigation of terrorist acts, encouraging terrorism and circulating terrorist publications.