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Coleman will be sentenced at the Old Bailey at a later date
A neo-Nazi has been found guilty of preparing terrorist acts after compiling a list of "race traitors" and trying to buy a gun.
MI5 officers lured Alfie Coleman, 21, into buying a Makarov pistol and ammunition in September 2023, and arrested him immediately after he picked up the weapon from a Land Rover in a car park in east London.
Coleman, from Great Notley, Essex, was convicted following a retrial after the jury in the first hearing at the Old Bailey failed to arrive at a verdict.
The court heard how he was a far-right "militant accelerationist" who believed in fighting a race war.
Prosecutors described how Coleman, then a teenager, had spent the Covid lockdown immersing himself "in an extreme right-wing world while looking to arm himself with weapons openly advertised on the internet, such as knives".
He downloaded various documents to his phone including a version of The Anarchist Cookbook, an illegal manual that includes instructions for making improvised explosive devices.
Coleman, who was wearing a white shirt and a grey sweater wrapped around his shoulders, remained impassive in the dock as the court heard how he also had a copy of a "manifesto" written by Dylann Roof.
Roof had written this "overtly racist" document before mounting a murderous attack at a church in South Carolina in 2015, killing nine people.
Giving evidence later in his trial, Tesco worker Coleman described a "race traitors" document police found on one of his devices as being "a list of people who, where I worked, were very rude to me".
He said: "I'd become pretty desensitised, which is why there wasn't much thought to it at the time."
Jurors were also shown a picture of the teenager wearing a skull head face mask with a death's head flag pinned to a wall in the background.
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