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The former British Army member harboured \u2018extreme right-wing\u2019 views and was ordering explosives components, say police.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A British court has handed a former army chef a nearly four-year jail term for possessing weapons for \u201cterrorist purposes\u201d.<\/p>\n

Mark Broadhurst, 28, was given the sentence on Wednesday at Sheffield Crown Court in England, two years after police uncovered online messages in which he expressed racist views and an intention to sell homemade firearms to right-wing groups.<\/p>\n

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Police found a stockpile of weapons at Broadhurst\u2019s home address when they took him into custody in September 2024, including knives and crossbows, black powder, ammunition, air pistols and what officials described as \u201can improvised homemade cannon\u201d.<\/p>\n

The former British Army member was also found to be part of an online chat group with three other men who last year were jailed for planning to carry out a \u201cterrorist\u201d attack at mosques or synagogues as part of what they believed to be a coming \u201crace war\u201d.<\/p>\n

Frank Ferguson, head of the special crime division of the UK\u2019s public prosecution agency, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), said Broadhurst was \u201cclearly interested in violence and developing weapons that had the ability to cause untold harm to innocent people\u201d.<\/p>\n

Detective Chief Superintendent James Dunkerley, who heads \u201ccounterterror\u201d policing in the northeastern region, said Broadhurst was found to be harbouring an \u201cextreme right-wing mindset\u201d and was \u201cproactively ordering components to make explosives\u201d.<\/p>\n

Broadhurst pleaded guilty to firearm possession and possessing an explosive under suspicious circumstances, but denied they were for \u201cterrorism\u201d purposes. \u2060A judge, however, ruled that Broadhurst\u2019s offences were connected to \u201cterrorism\u201d.<\/p>\n

His conviction comes against a backdrop of rising racial tensions<\/a> and hate crimes in the UK, with marginalised communities increasingly targeted.<\/p>\n

British police in July arrested 12 people<\/a> in connection with an \u201cextreme right-wing terrorism threat\u201d targeting an Islamic gathering in eastern England.<\/p>\n

Six months earlier, UK prosecutors said they were handling the highest number of hate crime cases referred by police in its history.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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