‘Ginger extremist’ Mark Colborne found guilty of plot to kill Prince Charles to make Harry king

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Nicole Morley for Metro.co.uk




A man labelled a ‘ginger extremist’ has been found guilty of plotting a terror attack ‘for the Aryan people’.

Mark Colborne, 37, planned to kill Prince Charles so his second son Harry would be closer to taking the throne.

His diary contained notes of his plot to assassinate the royal heir with a high powered sniper rifle.

Colborne bought the deadly ingredients for cyanide online, and stockpiled dust masks, metal filter funnels, plastic syringes and latex gloves, the court heard.

Colborne was caught after his half-brother discovered chemicals and papers detailing his racial hatred stashed in his bedroom at the family home in Southampton.


Family members found dangerous chemicals in Colborne’s home (Picture: Hampshire Police)

Following a retrial at the Old Bailey, he was found guilty by a majority of preparing terrorist acts before his arrest on June 3 last year.

The jury convicted him on the basis that Colborne possessed handwritten notes copied from internet sources such as The Terrorist Handbook, The Complete Improvised Kitchen and The Jolly Roger Cookbook about the production of explosives.

They also agreed that he had books with titles including Assorted Nasties, Silent Death and The Poor Man’s James Bond, which contained recipes for the production and delivery systems of lethal poisons such as cyanide.

However, the jury rejected aspects of the allegations that he intended to use the chemicals and paraphernalia as part of the terror plot.

Judge John Bevan QC adjourned sentencing to Tuesday November 3, add that it was a ‘very strange’ case involving a ‘very strange person’.

The court was told that Colborne felt alienated and bullied for being a white, ginger-haired, man and also suffered from agoraphobia and depression.

In his notebook, he wrote: ‘I don’t want to be a serial killer. I’m more of an Anders Breivik. I have left potential targets open.

‘I was waiting for an opportunity to kill one of them. Let it be Prince Charles which would be good.’

Adding: ‘Take up a good position and put a bullet in Charles’s head. He is protected but not too protected. I would sacrifice my life for that one shot. Kill Charles and William and Harry become king. Kill the tyrants.’

His plot was made before the birth of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s children George and Catherine.

Prosecutor Annabel Darlow QC said Colborne’s notes expressed hatred for ‘non-Aryans’ who he referred to as ‘blacks and Caucasian idiots’.

He wrote: ‘I’m looking for major retribution, a mass terrorist attack which will bring to the attention our pain not just mine but my brothers around the world.’

In his defence, Colborne admitted buying the chemicals and writing the diary but dismissed entries as ‘angry rants’ made when he was off medication for depression. He said: ‘Fantasies about killing people as a hitman – that was my number one fantasy.

‘Terrorism fantasies were sort of subsidiary but my main interest in being a professional hitman had taken over.’

Colborne had faced a retrial after a jury failed to agree a verdict in May.

[Hugh_Janus]

yeah.... then he'd have to kill william.... and then kill two kids

[Hugh_Janus]

I'd also say that that smiley is a cheer rather than a clap....

[PorkChopSandwiches]