Neo-Nazis jailed for plotting attacks on British mosques and synagogues

Three Nazi-worshipping extremists have been sentenced to up to 11 years in prison for planning terrorist attacks on mosques and synagogues.

Sheffield Crown Court heard Christopher Ringrose, 35, Marco Pitzettu, 25, and Brogan Stewart, 25, were preparing to use more than 200 weapons, including machetes, swords, crossbows and an illegal stun gun.

Ringrose had also 3D printed most components of a semi-automatic firearm at the time of his arrest and was trying to obtain the remaining parts.

The trio are not believed to have met in the real world before appearing together on the pier.

On Friday, a judge said Stewart was sentenced to 11 years in prison, Ringrose to 10 years and Pitzettu to eight years.

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Judge Mrs Justice Cutts told how the online group the trio belonged to was preparing to attack an Islamic Education Center in Leeds before they were arrested by counter-terrorism police.

In May a jury rejected claims that the defendants were dreamers who did not intend to carry out their threats and convicted Ringrose, of Cannock, Staffordshire, Pitzettu, Mickleover, Derbyshire, and Stewart, of Tingley, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, on charges of preparing acts of terrorism and collecting information useful to a person preparing or carrying out an act of terrorism. found him guilty. terrorism.

Ringrose was also found guilty of producing a prohibited weapon.