A Nazi-obsessed teenager who tried to kill a stranger with an axe begged a friend to kill all Jews and Muslims in Britain, a court has heard.
Alina Burns, then 18, attacked Iranian Kurd Mohammed Mahmoodi, 27, while he was stood outside a barber shop with a friend in Bedminster, Bristol, on August 2 last year.
Burns, who was carrying a scalpel and multiple darts, tried to strike Mr Mahmoodi on his neck with her axe but he managed to duck out of the way.
She attempted to hit him again but Mr Mahmoodi, who suffered scratches on his neck and cheeks from the attack, disarmed her and she was detained by police shortly after.
The far-Right extremist told officers she ‘wanted to cut his neck’.
Burns, a member of Neo-Nazi group Patriotic Alternative, hung an England flag above her bed and wrote notes about Adolf Hitler and weapons used by Germany during the two World Wars.
She described herself as the ’embodiment of hell’ and in one email addressed to a friend, wrote: ‘Kill all Jews and Muslims in Britain, please.’
Serena Gates KC, told Bristol Crown Court Burns had ‘a desire for a white England, achieved, if necessary, through terror’.
Nazi-obsessed Alina Burns, then 18, begged a friend to kill all Jews and Muslims in Britain
Burns attacked Iranian Kurd Mohammed Mahmoodi, 27, while he was stood outside a barber shop with a friend in Bedminster, Bristol, on 2 August last year
Police found messages where Burns said she ‘realised my role in existence: I am the embodiment of hell, destined to annihilate everything holy I bear witness to’.
In another message, she spoke of carrying out a ‘plan’ and wanting ‘all the credit and glory’, Sky News reported.
Burns pleaded guilty to attempted murder after buying the axe from Screwfix to use to ‘kill or injure the man’.
She also wrote about how it was ‘better if they flee out of fear rather than displace us in our own home’.
Days before the attack, the teenager searched Google for ‘how to properly use an axe for self-defence’ and ‘what age [can] you buy an axe?’
She also searched for YouTube videos about white supremacist Patrick Crusius who slaughtered 23 people at Walmart in 2019.
Burns denies having a terrorist motive but said it was ‘fair enough’ she was arrested for attempted murder during an assessment by a mental health practitioner.
She also said she ‘wanted to go on again but to succeed’ before asking if the attack was in the news.
Burns also pleaded guilty to three charges of carrying a bladed weapon in a public place.
The incident was initially investigated by Avon and Somerset Police before being taken over by counter terrorism police.
