Worcester white supremacist jailed for asylum seeker attack

A white supremacist who stabbed an asylum seeker at a hotel in what a judge said was “undoubtedly a terrorist attack” has been jailed for life.

Callum Parslow, 32, stabbed Nahom Hagos in the chest and hand at the Pear Tree Inn at Smite near Worcester.

At Woolwich Crown Court, Parslow was given a minimum term of 22 years and eight months for attempted murder.

During his trial Parslow told the jury he travelled to the hotel to stab “one of the Channel migrants” because he was “angry and frustrated”.

Sentencing Parslow, Mr Justice Dove said his attack on Mr Hagos was motivated by his adoption of a “far right neo-Nazi mindset, which fuelled your warped, violent and racist views.”

Parslow, of Bromyard Terrace, Worcester, was convicted of attempted murder following a three-week trial at Leicester Crown Court last year.

He also pleaded guilty to an unconnected sexual offence and two charges of sending electronic communications with intent to cause distress and anxiety.

The judge told him his victim suffered “devastating injuries” in “a vicious and unprovoked assault on a complete stranger”.

Mr Hagos is a 25-year-old Eritrean national who has been granted leave to remain in the UK until November 2028.

Mr Hagos, who had previously been a resident at the hotel, had returned to borrow a bicycle when the attack took place.

Parslow stabbed Mr Hagos in the chest and hand with a “specialist” knife he had bought online for £770, which the judge said had an “especially hard and sharp blade”.