'Neo-Nazi' who plotted terrorist attacks from Falkirk home to be sentenced

A “neo-nazi” white supremacist who amassed an “armoury” at his Stirlingshire home is to be sentenced in Glasgow on Thursday.

Alan Edward, a former journalist who glorified Hitler, was found guilty of planning a series of terrorist crimes including intending to commit an act of terrorism.

The 54-year-old had discussed an attack on a Scottish LBGT group, a jury heard in September.

He was arrested after armed police surrounded his end-terrace two-storey home in Redding, Falkirk, in September 2022 and broke down his front door.

They found weapons and equipment including a crossbow with telescopic sights, 14 knives – some with Nazi and SS insignia – machetes, a tomahawk, a Samurai sword, knuckledusters, a catapult, an extendable baton, and a stun gun.

They also found an air pistol modeled on the “James Bond” Walther PPK, an SS-style skull mask, goggles and a respirator, fighting gloves with specially-hardened knuckles, pellets, ball bearings, and hunting tips for crossbow arrows.

Prosecutors said this amounted to “an armoury”.

The High Court in Stirling heard earlier this year that Edward possessed and expressed “a set of ideals with a neo-Nazi outlook, incorporating notions of white supremacy, the notion of racial purity of whites, racism, anti-Semitism, and hatred of homosexuals and transgender people”.

He was also found guilty of racism, anti-semitism, Holocaust denial, and statutory breach of the peace.

All the offences were denied by Edward.

Prosecutor Paul Kearney KC, the advocate depute, said Edward was “a man who with clear neo-Nazi ideals… preparing for an act of terrorism which would include an ideologically-driven incident of serious violence”.