A TEEN who tried to buy a gun for a chilling mass terror attack has been jailed after he was caught in a dramatic undercover sting.
Alfie Coleman was 19 when he was set up as part by MI5 outside a Morrisons supermarket in Stratford, East London.
Alfie Coleman was arrested by armed cops while trying to buy s gun Credit: Central News
The warped teen had plotted a terror attack
The warped teen “idolised” , who murdered MP , and believed in white supremacy and neo-Nazism.
Coleman had amassed a sickening stash of terrorist documents, carried out online research and wrote a manifesto as he plotted a chilling attack.
This included a plot he hatched a week before he turned 18 to target the “Mayor of London house”.
In a section headed “weapons I can get easy”, he allegedly listed “knives” and “crossbows”.
Coleman had been trying to buy weapons online Credit: PA
He was unaware he was speaking to undercover MI5 operatives Credit: Central News
The Tesco worker was captured on his way to the meeting
He entered a Land Rover to pick up the weapons Credit: Central News
Coleman has now been jailed for 13-and-a-half years after he was convicted of planning a mass gun attack.
He pleaded guilty to possession of 10 documents useful to terrorists, attempting to possess both a firearm – which had been deactivated – and ammunition.
The court heard he had been trying to buy a gun online “persistently” for some time but was unaware he was talking to several undercover counter-terrorism operatives.
Nicholas de la Poer KC, prosecuting, said: “The prosecution’s case is that Mr Coleman engaged in conversation on encrypted social media platforms such as Wire and Telegram with people whom he thought were sympathetic to his views.
“And it was through such people that Mr Coleman sought to buy a firearm. A mission which led him to the car park in Stratford on the morning of September 29.”
Coleman drew pictures of guns as part of his manifesto Credit: PA
A Kalashnikov in a bag Coleman planned to buy Credit: PA
Coleman had arranged to buy a Makarov pistol, five magazines and 200 rounds of ammunition from the undercover operatives.
He was told the items would be in a Land Rover Discovery parked in the Morrisons car park.
Footage released by police shows Coleman going to the car, where he left £3,500 in cash in the front passenger seat footwell.
He then collected a bag from the boot and made it 30 yards before armed cops stopped him.
Jurors heard Coleman harboured an extreme right-wing ideology and was planning to use the gun in a terrorist attack.
At the time of his arrest, the teen was a “militant accelerationist” who believed in fighting a race war.
Coleman will be sentenced in July Credit: Shutterstock Editorial
One of the notes found by police after his arrest Credit: PA
His extreme right-wing views began forming in April 2020, when he was just 14.
Coleman’s family had no idea about their son’s escalation into extreme right wing ideology, which began during Covid lockdown.
They were unaware that a black sun flag hanging in his bedroom was associated with the Nazi SS or of the significance of posters referring to historic battles against Muslims.
Coleman attended Notley High School, Braintree, before going on to do a business studies course at Chelmsford College.
He had no history of violence or being in trouble with the law before his spiral into far-right extremism and police said Coleman had enjoyed “a relatively normal upbringing.”
A counter-terror police officer told jurors: “No one intervened because no one knew he had been radicalised – not his school, not his parents. It took us some time to identify him.”
He had emailed a far-right supremacist organisation called Patriotic Alternative in July 2021.
Coleman introduced himself as “a 17-year-old proud white European” who “would like to start participating in activism”.
In September 2022, he had written a list on his phone with offensive language next to a number of vehicle number plates.
Mr De La Poer said the phrase “race traitor” was written beside some of the number plates.
This included a white woman he worked with at a petrol garage who was married to a man of mixed Indian and Seychelloise heritage.
Coleman also had a copy of , which the killer had written before killing nine people at a church in in 2015.
Police also discovered Coleman wrote a plan for a potential terrorist attack in the notes application of his mobile.
The chilling note was entitled “Collapse” and identified “Mayor of London House” as a target.
It also included the postcode for the lord mayor’s residence, Mansion House, and set out a recipe for an explosive.
Coleman was put under surveillance in June 2023 over suspicions of mounting a terrorist attack after he began approaching Dutch gun dealers on encrypted messaging apps asking for a weapon.
He told an undercover officer that a race war could be ignited with “lots of sacrifice, lots of blood, lots of death, lots of pain, rivers of blood,” adding “sometimes it is all I ever think about.”
Coleman arranged to buy an AK-47 assault rifle and Skorpion sub-machine gun from an undercover cop posing as a Serbian arms dealer in the French champagne city of Reims.
The Hitler fan researched a mosque in Reims and arranged to travel to France on 6 September 2023.
Det Chief Supt Helen Flanagan, of the Counter Terrorism Policing London unit, said after the case: “It is our belief he intended to target that mosque.”
She also said Coleman had been “fully prepared and committed to carrying out an attack way beyond an online presence.”
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