A neo-Nazi who wanted to “kill all Jews and Muslims” to create a white-only Britain tried to behead a barber with an axe, a court has heard.
Alina Burns, 19, attacked Mohammed Mahmoodi, 27, with the weapon as he stood outside the shop in Bedminster, Bristol, in August last year.
Burns had been motivated by neo-Nazi extremism and had been in contact with far-right groups, Bristol Crown Court heard.
She had told a man on a dating app to “kill all Jews and Muslims”, and had searched for information online about Jihad, the Southport stabbings, Jewish supremacy and Nazi Germany.
Serena Gates KC, prosecuting, told the court: “The prosecution case is that the defendant had an extreme right-wing mindset and wanted Jews and Muslims to be killed, and non-whites to flee or be expelled from the UK.
“The day before the attack the defendant was watching videos of SS marches and sent an email called ‘The dawn of civil war’.”
The incident happened on the afternoon of August 2 when Burns approached Kurdish barber Mr Mahmoodi from behind and swung the axe – that she had bought for the attack – at his neck, causing a small wound.
Mr Mahmoodi, who was much bigger than the 5ft 2in Burns, was able to wrestle the axe away from her before she could strike him again.
A nearby police officer heard the commotion and went to the scene in East Street and arrested Burns.
Asked why she had attacked the Kurdish-Iranian man, Burns told the officer: “Because I wanted to cut his neck.
“I would do it again, but to succeed.”
She later told a Mental Health Act assessor she knew Mr Mahmoodi worked in the barbers, which was involved “in money laundering”.
“I know of him, he works in the Turkish barbers, I think they are money laundering and the police aren’t doing anything about it,” she said.
“So, if I done this, then maybe the police would investigate the shop.”
Miss Gates told the court: “She further asked if it had been on the news yet. She said she wanted to influence people to do the same thing, but be successful.
“She stated she would do it again, but to succeed.”
After Burns was arrested, police discovered her links to far-right groups and extremism.
Five months before the attack she had used an online dating app to speak with a man who she told: “I am the embodiment of hell and desire to amplify everything I bear witness too.
“I don’t want to end my life any more. I plan on bringing change to the UK through means I can’t detail.”
She later told him to “kill all the Jews and Muslims in Britain please”.
The man, who was not identified in court, reported the exchange to the police, the court was told.
Detectives found at her home handwritten notes about the “spread of Islam”, how to use fertiliser to manufacture explosives, and nuclear weapons.
There were also notes about German SS units serving in the Second World War, Adolf Hitler’s book Mein Kampf and the nationalist novel The Turner Diaries.
On her notebook computer was a copy of a terrorist handbook with information about chemicals and IEDs.
Burns had also used the Telegram messaging app to contact a representative of the British far-right group Patriotic Alternative.
At a previous hearing, Burns, of Lynton Road, Bristol, pleaded guilty to attempted murder and three charges of having an article with a blade or point – specifically an axe, a scalpel and two darts.
She had denied a charge of engaging in conduct in preparation of terrorist acts, contrary to the Terrorism Act, which was ordered to lie on file.
The Crown argued that despite accepting the plea, there remained a terrorist motivation to the attack, which was accepted by the judge, Mrs Justice Lambert.
The sentencing hearing continues.
