A terrorist who stabbed a man at a hotel in a premeditated attack was planning to share a right -wing manifesto but was stopped by police as officers praised the strength of community spirit.

Nazi-obsessed Callum Parslow was found guilty of attempted murder after he attacked and stabbed a 25-year-old Eritrean man at the Pear Tree Hotel in Smite, near Worcester during the shocking pre-meditated attack.

Senior police officers said the swift actions of officers prevented his hateful ideology from spreading by intercepting his ‘manifesto’ as they shed light on the case at a meeting at West Mercia Police’s HQ in Hindlip ahead of his sentence on January 17 next year.

GUILTY: Callum Parslow has been convicted of attempted murder (Image: X) Parslow has also pleaded guilty to unconnected charges, including a sexual offence, during a three-week trial at Leicester Crown Court.

By acting quickly, officers said they ‘frustrated’ Parslow’s to broadcast his ideology but officers also said it was a testament to the strength of community cohesion that, despite disinformation circulating online, the public waited for the official line from police.

The 32-year-old of Bromyard Terrace, St John’s, Worcester was found guilty of the ‘carefully planned’ attack last month following the stabbing on April 2, travelling five miles from his flat by taxi and along country lanes on foot after buying an expensive knife from the US. 

Parslow paid £770 for the knife online and was “angry and frustrated” at small boat crossings.

Local Policing and Operations Assistant Chief Constable Grant Wills and Detective Chief Superintendent Alison Hurst of the West Midlands Regional Counterterrorism Unit shed new light and insight on the attack by Callum Parslow.

Assistant chief constable Wills said: “We received a call to the Pear Tree around lunchtime in response to a man being attacked by another man. We arrived there within a matter of minutes.

“Helpfully, the public gave us some very good information in terms of the direction in which he had left. We are very grateful to two members of public who had given first aid and taken the injured man to hospital.”

The victim was taken to hospital by the hotel manager and one of the builders renovating the hotel.

He added: "It's a testament to the strength of our community cohesion that people wanted to hear the official line from us around the identity of the suspect."

The victim was stabbed to the chest and hand during the attack before Parslow left the scene.

Parslow was arrested on a canal towpath ‘within a short time’ by local officers from West Mercia Police. The knife was also found nearby and Parslow was said to have offered no resistance to officers.

Material found on his phone included Parslow giving a Nazi salute, Nazi symbols, right-wing propaganda and pictures of a tattoo on his arm of Adolf Hitler’s signature.

Head of Counter Terrorism Policing in the West Midlands, Detective Chief Superintendent Alison Hurst, said: “The victim has physically recovered. It is understandably very difficult to overcome. Emotionally, he’s still recovering from it, hoping that closure from the trial will allow him to move forward with his life.”

There is no evidence to suggest Parslow is part of wider extreme right-wing group or network, officers said.

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Parslow was described by officers as having an extreme right wing mindset. Following his arrest, his city home was searched and officers found other weapons including a knife, an axe and a baseball bat which ‘show he was a violent individual’.

His devices were also analysed where officers found ‘extreme right-wing material supporting hate and extremism’.

“There was a manifesto he intended to share but we intervened before that happened,” said Detective Chief Superintendent Hurst.

Parslow had come to the attention of West Mercia Police previously but said there was no specific information that the attack was going to occur.

Parslow had carried out research on hotels that had housed asylum seekers before the attack.

The advice to the public is to remain vigilant particularly with regard to family, friends and loved ones, including any suspicious behaviour or 'anything that might indicate an extremist mindset'.

Police also issued an assurance that these types of attack are rare and are carefully planned for by police and counterterrorism officers.