How racist killer linked his vile views to Britain

BRENTON Tarrant urged far-Right fanatics to target London Mayor Sadiq Khan in a manifesto in which he said he was inspired partly by events in Britain.

In the document posted online before the shootings in New Zealand, the 8year-old terrorist described Mr Khan as a ‘Pakistani Muslim invader’.

He wrote: ‘Londinium, the very heart of the British isles. What better sign of the white rebirth than the removal of this invader?’

Scotland Yard declined to say whether the mayor will receive increased security as a result of the threat.

After the attack, Mr Khan said: ‘London stands in solidarity with the Muslim community in New Zealand and around the world. Those who seek to divide us will never succeed – we reject their hate and embrace our diversity.’

Tarrant’s rambling 74-page document, entitled The Great Replacement, made a series of references to crimes and terror attacks in Britain that appear to have inspired him.

He posted photos of an ammunition clip scrawled with the message ‘For Rotherham’ – a reference to the child sex abuse scandal in the Yorkshire town where dozens of men, predominantly of Pakistani origin, targeted vulnerable Photo: His message referring to the UK, and other far-Right fanatics white girls. The same clip also carried the names of Alexandre Bissonnette, who murdered six worshippers in a mosque in Canada in 017, and Italian extremist Luca Traini, who shot and wounded six African migrants in a racist attack last year.

Tarrant’s manifesto also referred to Darren Osborne, who was jailed for life after driving into worshippers at the Finsbury Park mosque in London in June 017, killing one person and injuring 1 . The terrorist wrote: ‘I support many of those that take a stand against ethnic and cultural genocide… Darren Osbourne [sic] etc.’

Describing himself as ‘an actual fascist’, he claimed Sir Oswald Mosley, the leader of the British Union of Fascists, was the ‘person from history closest to my own beliefs’.

An archive of a Facebook page thought to belong to Tarrant included links to recordings of speeches by Mosley.