Nazi Southport rioter called Dunblane massacre ‘a waste of a mass shooting’

A antheral who threatened respective constabulary officers and took portion successful the Southport rioting was recovered with Nazi materials and weapons astatine his home.

Jack Mason utilized the pseudonym Harry Roberts, the sanction of a serial slayer who killed a fig of constabulary officers, to nonstop respective threatening emails to members of Merseyside Police.

He told Chief Constable Serena Kennedy that helium had a weapon and would ‘cut her look off’ during the Southport rioting past summer.

31-year-old Mason had antecedently been detained for ‘obstructing a cause hunt and resisting arrest’ successful 2021.

He past bombarded the arresting serviceman with threatening telephone calls, telling him ‘I’ll conscionable f***ing stroke your caput off, you small d***head,’ successful 1 call.

Mason was convicted of harassment and handed a restraining bid which banned him from contacting the arresting serviceman until June 2022.

The serviceman near Merseyside Police, but his collar fig was fixed to a caller PC and Mason utilized it to email him connected February 7 of past year.

Using the Harry Roberts moniker, astatine archetypal helium claimed helium wanted to stock grounds successful narration to a case, but this was soon followed up by different email which said: ‘Come connected present Jack, don’t beryllium ignoring maine you anserine b*****d”.

‘Soon, radical volition die. When it’s each implicit the news, I privation you to deliberation backmost to this beauteous email and erstwhile you spot my sanction it’ll each marque sense.’

In a 3rd email, each sent connected the aforesaid day, Mason said: ‘I lone anticipation you would beryllium determination connected the large day, but the likelihood aren’t successful my favour. Either mode I volition beryllium tasting blood, adjacent if it’s not yours.

‘Recipe: 2 Glocks, 1 .38, 8 magazines, 1 uniform, 1 stab impervious vest, 1 vessel of petrol, 1 lighter, 1 constabulary station.’

Mason was arrested connected March 1 aft sending a further email connected February 17 informing ‘time is astir up’ – however, nary enactment was taken against him, arsenic constabulary couldn’t find grounds linking him to the Harry Roberts emails.

He aboriginal took portion successful rioting successful Liverpool metropolis centre connected August 3, aft an onslaught successful which 3 young girls were killed.

Mason asked an acquaintance the time before: ‘Do you cognize wherever there’s immoderate protests gathering up?’

He added it was ‘kicking disconnected successful Sunderland already’ and remarked that determination were immoderate ‘[racial slurs] successful Liverpool arsenic well’, saying: ‘Going to municipality tomorrow, I conscionable privation to cognize where. Is it decidedly astatine the Town Hall tomorrow?’

On the time of the rioting, Mason was caught connected camera smashing bricks onto the level connected the Pier Head and launching a rocket towards constabulary officers.

In this footage, helium was shown with a balaclava covering his look and wearing the aforesaid khaki greenish garment that helium wore successful the dock.

Less than a fortnight later, connected August 15, Mason sent much emails nether the Harry Roberts pseudonym, this clip to Chief Constable Serena Kennedy.

He told her ‘One weapon acquired, 2 much to go. It volition beryllium a glorious day,’ past emailed different serviceman the adjacent time asking however it would consciousness to ticker Chief Constable Kennedy’s look being ‘cut off’.

Mason added sidesplitting officers would beryllium a ‘dream travel true’ and described the sidesplitting of 16 children successful Scotland arsenic a ‘waste of wide shooting’.

This appeared to beryllium a notation to the Dunblane massacre, successful which 16 children and a teacher were changeable dormant astatine a superior schoolhouse successful 1996.

Mason was past further arrested connected September 18. While searching his home, officers recovered an airsoft gun, a noose, a knife, a drafting of a swastika, stickers bearing the words ‘white lives matter’ and radical slurs, 2 termination notes and a tiny quantity of cannabis.

Pictures of the suspect wearing a swastika armband, a photograph of a rainbow emblem being burned and an representation containing the connection ‘don’t blasted me. I voted for Hitler’ were recovered connected his phone.

Mason has a full of 5 erstwhile convictions for 7 offences, including 2 appearances for resisting constabulary successful 2022.

He faced a malicious communications offence aboriginal that twelvemonth aft threatening to ‘attend St Helens Police Station with a firearm’.

In January 2023, helium was handed an 18-month assemblage bid for a akin complaint aft sending a bid of texts to a pistillate constabulary serviceman successful which helium said helium was ‘intending to acquisition a firearm’ and was ‘thinking of going shooting constabulary officers astatine the constabulary station’.

Paul Becker, defending, told the tribunal connected Monday that the decease of Mason’s begetter had led to a ‘significant effect connected his intelligence health’, with his lawsuit having shown ‘suicidal and autistic traits’.

Mason, of Grasmere Avenue successful St Helens, pleaded blameworthy to convulsive disorder, 5 malicious communications offences and possession of cannabis.

He showed nary absorption astatine Liverpool crown tribunal arsenic was jailed for 4 years and 4 months and handed a five-year transgression behaviour order.

Sentencing, Judge David Potter said: ‘You knew that Harry Roberts was a fig from the 1960s who had murdered constabulary officers, and you assumed that person’s sanction deliberately.

‘You told the serviceman that you were wanting to get successful interaction implicit immoderate grounds however, the pursuing day, you began the archetypal of respective threatening messages.

‘Following your information successful the convulsive disorder, your threats substantially accrued and present targeted the Chief Constable of Merseyside Police, Serena Kennedy.

‘Your email contained a circumstantial and elaborate statement of the unit you wanted to perpetrate upon Chief Constable Kennedy.

‘It was a nonstop menace to life. While she of people requires a beardown grade of resilience to transportation retired her duties, she nevertheless is quality and threats similar this are pervasive and intrusive.

Of Mason’s engagement successful the convulsive disorder, the justice added: ‘I americium satisfied that your offending was motivated by spiritual oregon radical hatred.

‘You plainly attended these protests due to the fact that of a heavy seated hatred of Islam and non-white taste groups.’

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