Neo-Nazi who plotted to kill Labour MP ‘is left disfigured after vicious attack with makeshift knife’ at HMP Wakefield

A neo-Nazi who planned to kill a Labor MP with a machete was disfigured after a prisoner slashed ‘the length of his face’ with a makeshift knife.

White supremacist Jack Renshaw, who was jailed for life in 2019 for a plot to kill Labor MP Rosie Cooper, is said to have been ‘striped’ during a violent attack outside his cell at HMP Wakefield.

The 30-year-old man is believed to have been targeted for his far-right views.

At his trial, it was revealed that he criticized Adolf Hitler for showing ‘mercy’ to the Jewish people and called for genocide against them; which led to his conviction for racial hatred in 2018.

Renshaw also reportedly gave a Nazi salute to his supporters as he was taken from the dock to his cell following his trial in 2019.

A source told Sun That Renshaw was ‘lucky to survive’ the attack.

He was cut with a makeshift “handled” knife and left with an open wound running the length of his face.

‘There was blood everywhere. Guards rushed to the scene and prevented the situation from getting any worse – but it was already pretty bad.’

Renshaw said to have been ‘striped’ during violent attack outside his cell at HMP Wakefield

The attack came just two months after Lostprophets frontman Ian Watkins, 48, was fatally stabbed in the neck in the same prison.

Renshaw, of Skelmersdale, Lancashire, was jailed for at least 20 years after admitting preparing an act of terrorism.

His trial heard Renshaw wanted to ‘copy’ the murder of Labor politician Jo Cox, who was killed a year earlier in 2016.

He bought a replica 19-inch Roman sword to assassinate Rosie Cooper, but the plan was foiled by whistleblower Robbie Mullen, who was at a meeting in a pub in July 2017 when Renshaw announced he would kill the MP.

After the pub meeting, Mr Mullen, of Widnes, Cheshire, reported the threat to Hope Not Hate and Renshaw was arrested.

Mr Mullen, who was granted immunity from prosecution, told jurors: ‘He said he was going to kill the local MP Rosie Cooper. “Are you sure?” I said. and he said, “Yes.”

‘He said he was going to kill her, then try to take some hostages to convince the police officer investigating him to kill him because he was behind everything.

‘ He said he had made his decision. He had bought a machete.’

Mr Mullen added that Renshaw said he would wear a fake suicide vest to be killed by police.

The attack is said to have occurred while Renshaw was outside his cell at HMP Wakefield

Renshaw was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2019 for his plot to kill Labor MP Rosie Cooper

Before the attack, the neo-Nazi was jailed for trying to groom two minors, aged between 13 and 15, using a fake Facebook profile.

He was sentenced to 16 months in prison in June 2018 after being found guilty of four counts of grooming and encouraging sexual activity on a child.

The attack came just two months after Lostprophets frontman Ian Watkins, 48, was fatally stabbed in the neck in the same prison.

Prisoners Rashid Gedel (25) and Samuel Dodsworth (43) appeared in court accused of the murder of the pedophile singer.

Missing Blackpool girl case sparks Renshaw’s far-right involvement

Charlene Downes (pictured above) disappeared when she was 14

Jack Renshaw’s interest in far-right politics was sparked by extremist groups trying to capitalize on the disappearance of 14-year-old girl Charlene Downes.

In 2007, a murder trial jury at Preston Crown Court was told allegations that Charlene’s body had been dismembered and she had ‘gone for a kebab’ after she disappeared from Renshaw’s hometown of Blackpool in November 2003.

Charlene was said to be among several young white girls who turned to the resort’s takeaways to have sex with older men.

A restaurant patron accused of murder and a co-worker accused of helping dispose of her body have been formally acquitted after a jury failed to reach a verdict.

However, both the British National Party and the English Defense League continued to exploit the case.

Former leader and then North West MP Nick Griffin met Renshaw and invited him to a two-week work experience in Brussels, according to Renshaw.

He went on to lead the BNP’s youth wing while studying economics and politics at Manchester Metropolitan University, and stood as the party’s candidate in the Blackpool council ward by-election in October 2014. It received 17 votes.

In 2007, a murder trial jury at Preston Crown Court (pictured above) was told that Charlene’s body had been dismembered and ‘gone for the kebabs’.

As time went on, Renshaw said his ‘political evolution’ led him to become an ‘open nationalist socialist’, who thought Griffin was mistakenly trying to portray himself as a moderate.

Details of Renshaw’s past emerged during two hearings at Preston Crown Court last year where he was found guilty of inciting racial hatred and inciting two underage boys to engage in sexual activity.

At the second hearing he denied having a sexual interest in children and said he had been campaigning against childcare since the age of 14 and was involved in the ‘Justice for Charlene Downes’ case.

Renshaw, 23, was born in Ormskirk and grew up in Skelmersdale, which he describes as a ‘very white town’, but moved to Blackpool with his mother when he separated from his father.

From 2015 to early 2017, he expressed his nationalist views on Facebook, Twitter and some encrypted messaging applications.

Renshaw, 23, told jurors: ‘When we communicate with each other as nationalists we like to keep our messages private, using email services like Tutanota and Telegram.

‘We would use these to make it difficult for our competitors to learn about our plans and activities.’

Claiming he was a ‘principled nationalist’ who was currently not a member of any political organization, he said: ‘I hold the same views but I don’t see any vehicle out there which works to express them.