Callum Parslow launched his attack at the Pear Tree Inn near Worcester

A man has been found guilty of attempted murder after he stabbed an asylum seeker at a Worcestershire hotel. Callum Parslow launched his assault in a protest over small boats, a court heard.

Nazi-obsessed Parslow, 32, left his 25-year-old victim injured in the attack but luckily, he survived the ordeal earlier this year. Parslow was later charged with attempted murder connected to terrorism and possession of a bladed article.

He was found guilty of attempted murder at Leicester Crown Court. Parslow tried to publish a “terrorist manifesto” on his X account in the moments before his arrest, the court was told.

During the trial, Parslow, who admitted wounding, said he had made the four-and-a-half-mile journey to the hotel on April 2 to stab “one of the Channel migrants” because he was “angry and frustrated”.

Opening the case for the Crown on October 8 at Leicester Crown Court, prosecutor Tom Storey KC said Nahom Hagos had previously lived at the Pear Tree Inn and had returned to visit a friend when he was stabbed twice, severing tendons in his left hand.

The prosecutor told the court Mr Hagos was minding his own business, eating his lunch, and had given Parslow directions to the hotel’s toilets before he was attacked.

At the time of the stabbing, the hotel was largely closed to the public due to renovation work, having previously contracted to house asylum seekers from November 2022 to February 2024.

Mr Storey said of the attack: “The defendant’s actions that day were carefully planned and were driven by a particular ideology, specifically an extreme right-wing ideology, which had led him to identify and target his victim on the basis of his ethnicity.”

Mr Hagos, originally from Eritrea in East Africa, was eating a meal in a conservatory when he was attacked, and said of his survival: “I still look at it as a miracle. God saved me.”

Parslow, who stored Nazi memorabilia and weapons at his bedsit in Bromyard Terrace, Worcester, was remanded in custody and will be sentenced by Mr Justice Dove at Woolwich Crown Court on January 17.

After the attack, assistant chief constable of West Mercia Police, Grant Wills, said: “This was a truly shocking incident and my thoughts continue to be with the victim as he recovers from his injuries.

“We understand the details of this charge may be alarming to the community, but we can reassure you that there isn’t believed to be any wider risk to the public. The local policing team from West Mercia Police will remain visible in the area for your reassurance.”

Birmingham Mail