Ex-soldier jailed for far-right terror plot to burn down bookshop
A former British soldier who wrote a detailed plan to burn down a left-wing bookshop and spraypaint a swastika and “white lives matter” on the wall has been jailed for nearly five years.
William Howitt, 27, had written a guide in his iPhone notes app to carry out an arson attack on the Five Leaves bookshop in Nottingham because he disagreed with their stances on political and social issues including the LGBT community and the Black Lives Matter movement.
As well as the arson plan, created on September 7 2020 and dubbed ‘Plan A’, a raft of other pro-Nazi, antisemitic and anti-communist messages, videos and pictures were found on Howitt’s phone when he handed it over to counter-terrorism police after he was stopped at airport on January 5.
