Scots Neo-Nazi caught with chilling haul of terrorist 'armoury' plotted attack on LGBT group

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A Neo-Nazi white supremacist who amassed terrorist "armoury" at his Stirlingshire home was today facing years in prison.Alan Edward, a former journalist who glorified Hitler, was found guilty of a series of terrorist crimes including intending to commit an act of terrorism.The 54-year-old had discussed an attack on a Scottish LBGT group, a jury heard.

Edward, who had nearly 28,000 followers on social media, denied the Holocaust, mocked the murder of George Floyd, invited support for a proscribed far-right terrorist group, and told his on-line disciples, "the quickest way to someone's heart is with a high power 7.62mm round".A document found on his computer referred to Norwegian neo-Nazi mass murderer Anders Breivik as "Saint Anders".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".He was arrested after armed police surrounded his end-terrace two-storey home in Falkirk before dawn in September 2022 and broke down his front door.They found weapons and equipment 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.They also found an air pistol modelled on the "James Bond" Walther PPK, an SS-style skull mask, goggles and a respirator, fighting gloves with specially-hardened knuckles, pellets, ball bearings, and hunting tips for crossbow arrows.Prosecutors said this amounted to "an armoury".Edward also had an indoor cannabis plantation he was growing to sell.Checks on his