Nazi Sympathiser Jailed For Mosque Bomb Plot

A Nazi sympathiser who plotted to blow up mosques using homemade explosives has been jailed for 10 years.

Ian Forman was convicted of engaging in conduct in preparation of terrorist acts.

The 42-year-old had a “deep hatred” of Muslims and made a list of mosques near his home in Birkenhead, Merseyside, which he referred to as his “dreck ziel” – a German phrase meaning “target”.

He also researched how to make bombs on the internet and tested homemade explosives at his home.

Kingston Crown Court heard that the receptionist expressed right-wing views on social media and owned part of an SS officer’s uniform, which he filmed himself wearing while playing computer games.

Judge Paul Dodgson said he had acted in a “racist, abusive and extremely offensive manner”.

He said: “You in your perverted way believed that your activities were a continuation of Nazi warfare.”

Police were alerted when colleagues at Manisty, a glass recycling firm in Ellesmere Port, found he had been searching how to obtain dangerous chemicals on the internet while at work.

Forman, who lived with his parents, only saw his wife at weekends as she worked in Bradford and previously wrote a letter to Merseyside police warning them not to side with “the Muslim filth”, the court heard.

David Mason QC, defending, said Forman was “not your average terrorist”.

He said: “It is consistent with someone who thought about it for a very long time but actually never stepped out of his front door to do it.

“He perhaps came across as someone rather pathetic, very bright, holding appalling views but not your average terrorist.”

Forman had been held at Belmarsh prison, which has a “significantly high ethnic population”, Mr Mason said. He has since been moved.

Detective Sergeant Matt Findell, of the North West Counter-Terrorism Unit, said: “Thankfully, we will never know how far Forman was prepared to go in acting out his racist fantasies.

“However, we do know that Forman had carefully selected a number of targets to meet his own means.

“Had he carried them out, his attacks could have caused considerable damage to both property and people at several mosques.”

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Nazi Sympathiser Jailed For Mosque Bomb Plot