Neo-Nazi pedophile who plotted "white jihad" machete murder of politician is jailed [View all]

A British neo-Nazi pedophile who plotted to murder a Member of Parliament (MP) with a machete in a terrorist act he referred to as “white jihad” has been jailed for life.

Jack Renshaw, 23, pleaded guilty at London’s Old Bailey courthouse to preparing an act of terror when he bought a machete online in preparation for the attack on Labour Party M.P. Rosie Cooper, which he previously told the court “would send the state message.”

Cooper was Renshaw’s local MP. He wanted to imitate the murder of Jo Cox, another Labour Party MP, who was shot and stabbed to death by white supremacist Thomas Mair in 2016 as he shouted “Britain first.”

According to the BBC, the judge sentenced Renshaw to a minimum of 20 years in prison. A reporter for the radio station LBC wrote on Twitter that Renshaw gave a Nazi salute to his supporters in the court as he was led away to begin his sentence.


Renshaw was convicted in 2018 of inciting children to sexual activity after messaging young teenage boys on the internet. He encouraged them to send nude images and wanted to meet for sex, offering one money to spend the night with him, HuffPost UK reported.

The neo-Nazi was allegedly a member of National Action, an extreme-right group banned in the U.K. as a terrorist organization. But in a separate trial over his alleged membership of National Action, a jury was unable to reach a verdict.



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