Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Soldier ‘wrote race war plan’
‘Weapons hoard found at house’
A BRITISH soldier accused of membership of a banned neonazi group stockpiled daggers and machetes while planning a race war, a court has heard.
A jury was told L Cpl Mikko Vehvilainen was “personally committed” to violence on behalf of racist group National Action.
Vehvilainen, 33, is standing trial along with Pte Mark Barrett, 25, and a 23-year-old man who cannot be named for legal reasons.
Prosecutor Duncan Atkinson claimed Vehvilainen wrote a list of “security kit” in a notebook.
The jury heard what appeared to be a crude version of an electromagnetic pulse device, which can disrupt electronic signals, was discovered at his home.
Machetes, various daggers, knuckle-dusters, a crossbow, arrows, circuit boards and a hammer were seized, along with several Nazi flags, the court heard, while CDS of music related to the Third Reich were found in a car.
Describing a raid by antiterror police on his army accommodation at Sennybridge Camp, Powys, last September, Mr Atkinson said: “In a notebook recovered from the defendant’s address, he had drafted a document headed ‘Extinction’. From its content it appears to be the first edition of a magazine in which he referred to the ‘extinction’ being the ‘genocide being forced upon whites’.”
Part of the notebook entry allegedly read: “Be prepared to fight and die for your race in a possible last stand for our survival.”
It is alleged Vehvilainen was a recruiter for National Action and introduced Barrett, who was based at Kendrew Army Barracks in Rutland, to the organisation. Barrett, who served with Vehvilainen in the Royal Anglian Regiment, allegedly had two National Action cards – one labelled “White Jihad”. The trial, at Birmingham crown court, continues.