Author: Darren Smith

A neo-Nazi who compiled a kill list of workmates and customers at the Tesco where he worked, saved £3,500 from his part-time wages to buy a semi-automatic pistol and was planning what counter-terrorism officers believe would have been a mass shooting at mosques has been found guilty of preparing acts of terrorism after a retrial at the Old Bailey. Alfie Coleman was 19 years old when MI5 undercover agents, who had spent months gaining his trust on encrypted messaging apps, arrested him in a dramatic sting operation in a Morrisons car park in Stratford on 29 September 2023. Footage of…

The man suspected of carrying out the terrorist knife attack in Golders Green is a 45-year-old British citizen of Somali origin who was previously referred to the Government’s Prevent counter-extremism programme, Britannia Daily understands. The suspect was born in Somalia and came to the United Kingdom legally as a child in the early 1990s, subsequently becoming a British national. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley confirmed he had “a history of serious violence and mental health issues.” Following his arrest at the scene on Wednesday morning, the suspect was taken to hospital for brief treatment before being transferred to police…

The two men stabbed in Wednesday’s terror attack in Golders Green have been named as Shloime Rand, 34, and Moshe Shine, 76 — both described by those who know them as devoted members of their community who had done nothing more than attend morning prayer before being targeted on the street for being Jewish. Shloime Rand’s sister, speaking to the Daily Mail, described the moment she learned her brother had come within centimetres of losing his life. “We’ve been told that if the knife had hit a centimetre to the right or to the left, it would have ruptured his…

A rejected Iraqi asylum seeker who pushed a 16-year-old Ukrainian girl to her death under a freight train in Germany — while she was on the phone to her grandfather — has been ordered into secure psychiatric care rather than face a murder trial, after a court accepted he was not criminally responsible due to paranoid schizophrenia. Muhammed A, 31, will be detained indefinitely in a secure psychiatric facility following Wednesday’s ruling, after prosecutors concluded that while he carried out the killing, his mental illness meant he could not be held criminally liable. The victim’s mother, who watched the proceedings…

Newly released police dispatch audio has captured the horrifying moment officers discovered the bodies of two young children allegedly killed by their own mother in their Massachusetts home, after she turned up 140 miles away in Vermont with a self-inflicted wound to her throat and a chilling confession. “There’s blood spatter everywhere,” an officer can be heard saying on the recording as he moved through the Wellesley home, having found a rear door unsecured during a welfare check. The words were spoken in the moments before officers realised there was nothing they could do for seven-year-old Ella and six-year-old Kai…

Sir Mark Rowley was confronted by furious bystanders shouting “resign” and “shame on you” as he visited the scene of a terrorist knife attack in Golders Green on Tuesday morning, in which two Jewish men were stabbed by an attacker who had previously been known to police and the Government’s Prevent deradicalisation programme. The Metropolitan Police Commissioner acknowledged he could “never give an absolute assurance” that Jewish people were safe in London, but insisted his force was doing “everything we can do to protect people in difficult times.” He said he understood why Jewish Londoners felt “afraid and angry” —…

A paedophile who used a drone to follow children around a primary school playing field — reducing at least one pupil to tears — has been handed a suspended sentence and walked free from court, despite having previous convictions for similar offending dating back more than a decade. Jeremy Bird, 48, from Salisbury, flew the lightweight aircraft over a primary school in the Wiltshire city on several occasions in September 2023, using it to track children as they played in the grounds. In one incident captured on video and described to the court, a child was followed by the drone…

Telegram founder Pavel Durov has made explosive allegations against French tax authorities, claiming officials are selling personal data belonging to cryptocurrency holders to organised criminal gangs — an accusation he made as France grapples with a wave of more than 40 crypto-related kidnappings since the start of the year. In a post on X, Durov alleged that French tax officials were leaking the details of cryptocurrency investors to criminals while simultaneously failing to address what he described as “massive” breaches within government tax databases. The claims came against a backdrop of documented criminal activity that has sent shockwaves through France’s…

Erling Haaland is facing criticism in his home country after agreeing to front a global advertising campaign for Budweiser — a deal that has drawn sharp condemnation from health campaigners in Norway, where alcohol advertising is prohibited by law. The Manchester City striker has joined World Cup sponsor Budweiser and former Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp to launch the brand’s “Let It Pour” promotional campaign ahead of this summer’s tournament. While the campaign is being rolled out across 40 countries, Norway is not among them — a distinction that has done little to soften the reaction from anti-alcohol organisations in his…

Two Jewish men have been stabbed in Golders Green in what is being treated as an antisemitic attack, as a suspect who was seen running along one of north London’s most recognisable Jewish high streets armed with a knife and attempting to attack members of the public was detained by community volunteers before being Tasered and arrested by police. The attack unfolded on Golders Green Road, with witnesses describing the attacker running through the street targeting Jewish passersby. Volunteer security group Shomrim, which provides patrols across ultra-Orthodox Haredi neighbourhoods, intervened and held the man until officers arrived. Both victims suffered…