Nazi-obsessed teenager who tried to behead Kurdish barber with an axe is jailed for more than 15 years

A Nazi-obsessed teenager who told a man to kill all Jews and Muslims and launched a far-right axe attack on a stranger outside a barber's shop has been jailed for more than 15 years.

Alina Burns, then aged 18, attacked Mohammed Mahmoodi, an Iranian Kurd, outside a barber's shop in Bedminster, Bristol, on 2 August last year as he was chatting with a friend.

CCTV from inside the shop showed the 27-year-old turning and ducking at the last minute as she swung an axe at his neck.

The teenager then tried to strike Mr Mahmoodi again, before he managed to disarm her, escaping with only painful scratches to his neck and cheek.

A nearby police officer heard the commotion and went to the scene in East Street and arrested Burns. They found a scalpel and several darts on her.

Burns nodded when the arresting officer asked her if she had swung the axe at the man. When he asked her why, she replied: "I wanted to cut his neck. I would do it again, but to succeed."

Police later discovered an email she had written to a man she met on a dating app, saying: "Kill all Jews and Muslims in Britain, please."

She was also found to have searched for information online about Jihad, the Southport stabbings and Nazi Germany.

Burns used the Telegram messaging app to contact a representative of the British far-right group Patriotic Alternative.

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.

At Bristol Crown Court on Friday, a judge imposed a custodial sentence on Burns of 15-and-a-half years with an additional four-year period on licence once she is released.

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'."

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