MP KILL PLOT NAZI GROOMED TEEN BOYS
Won’t face retrial over National Action
A NEO-Nazi who plotted the murder of Labour MP Rosie Cooper will not face a retrial for membership of the banned group National Action.
Jack Renshaw, 23, bought a 19ins knife to kill the West Lancs MP and a female police officer against whom he had a grudge.
The plan was scuppered by whistle-blower Robbie Mullen, who was at a meeting in a pub when Renshaw announced that he was going to kill Ms Cooper.
Renshaw, from Skelmersdale, Lancs, had admitted making preparations to kill his local MP in 2017 and making a threat to kill police officer Victoria Henderson who was investigating him.
But he denied membership of banned extreme right-wing group National Action along with Andrew Clarke, 34, and Michal Trubini, 36, from Warrington. A jury at the Old Bailey was unable to reach verdicts on any of the defendants following a retrial.
Mrs Justice McGowan discharged the jury after being told there was no prospect of the jury reaching any verdicts if given more time.
Renshaw has been remanded into custody and will be sentenced on May 17.
It can now be reported that Renshaw is a convicted paedophile who was jailed last June for 16 months after he groomed two underage boys online.
Jurors at Preston Crown Court last June found him guilty of four counts of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.
The self-confessed Nazi claimed anti-fascist group Hope Not Hate wanted to discredit him and maliciously hacked his mobile phones to send messages of a sexual nature to the teenagers.
Inciting
But jurors at Preston Crown Court did not believe him and convicted him of four counts of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.
The former leader of the British National Party youth wing set up two fake Facebook profiles and contacted the boys, aged 13 and 14, between February 2016 and January 2017.
Communicating via Facebook Messenger, Renshaw boasted to the youngsters that he was rich, could give them jobs and offered one of them £300 to spend the night with him.
He also requested intimate photographs of the pair before one of the boys reported the messages to his tutor and the police were contacted.
Investigations led to the seizure of two phones from Renshaw’s then family address in Blackpool, Lancs.
Another two mobiles belonging to Renshaw were later recovered and showed evidence of searches for homosexual pornography.
When interviewed, he told police he was heterosexual and a virgin who did not believe in sex outside of marriage, and viewed homosexuality as “unnatural”.
He went on to blame the police for putting material on his phone.
After his convictions for the child sex offences he was put on the Sex Offenders’ Register for 10 years.