The story of the trials of Jack Renshaw.
A jury has been unable to decide whether Jack Renshaw, a neo-Nazi who admitted a terrorist plot to kill an MP, remained a member of a banned terrorist group. At the end of his fourth and final trial of the past two years, the full story of those cases can now be told.Numbers varied - from only a couple of drinkers to as many as 10.Friar Penketh, Warrington
Almost immediately, the then 22-year-old began complaining about an ongoing police investigation into him for stirring up racial hatred in speeches.As the evening wore on, he revealed an imminent plan - that if he was charged by police, he would make a political statement by killing his local MP Rosie Cooper.Hostages would be taken, he elaborated, and he would lure a female detective who was investigating him to the scene by demanding to speak to her. He would then kill her as well.
What none of them knew was that one of their number was secretly passing information to the anti-racism charity Hope not Hate."I didn't want to be involved in killing anyone, or a group I was involved with killing people. I just didn't want anyone to get killed or hurt," he says. National Action had even used an official Twitter account to celebrate the murder of Jo Cox MP by a white supremacist.
But it was two anti-Semitic speeches he made on behalf of National Action that would prove his undoing. For nearly a year he had been using a fake Facebook profile to sexually groom two boys, who were aged between 13 and 15 at the time. One of the investigating officers - Det Con Victoria Henderson - was tasked with keeping in touch with the suspect and she also became involved in the sexual offences inquiry.He must have realised his deception was at an end.
Earlier that month he had researched the West Lancashire MP and Googled:"How long to die after jugular cut".On 7 June, he ordered a machete online - described by its manufacturer as offering"19 inches of unprecedented piercing and slashing power" - and paid for next-day delivery. After Renshaw laid out his violent plans in the pub on 1 July 2017, Mullen spoke to Matthew Collins, his contact and Hope not Hate's research director.
He was released on bail, and that night posted a series of messages on Facebook indicative of his mindset.In another, he wrote:"I'll laugh last but it may not be for the longest."While searching his uncle's house, they discovered the machete that Renshaw had bought hidden in an airing cupboard.He was eventually found and arrested on suspicion of making threats to kill.
Mullen, having refused witness protection, was issued with a"threat to life" notice by the authorities. Around Christmas time, he sent the child an image of some presents and said he could have them in exchange for intimate pictures.When the child called Renshaw a"dirty paedophile" he replied by saying"that turned him on", the victim recalled.
During his third trial - at the Old Bailey in summer 2018 - Renshaw was more forthcoming, appearing unashamed at his murderous plans and hatred of others.
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