Overview

• Alfie Coleman was arrested in September 2023 after an MI5 sting agent sold him a Makarov pistol and ammunition outside a London supermarket.
• He has pleaded guilty to possessing ten documents likely useful to terrorists and admitted collecting extremist manifestos, including that of Brenton Tarrant.
• Prosecutors highlighted his online posts praising balaclava-clad militants ‘coming to England soon’ and a slogan urging violence against refugees.
• New evidence shows he compiled a list labelling colleagues and customers ‘race traitors’, which he says was not intended as a kill list.
• Coleman insists his extremist writings reflected intrusive thoughts and that he never planned to carry out a terrorist attack.