Alina Burns, 18, has admitted attempted murder after attacking an Iranian Kurd outside a barber’s shop in Bristol. A Nazi-obsessed teenager who launched a far-right axe attack on a random stranger has pleaded guilty to attempted murder. Alina Burns, then aged 18, attacked Mohammed Mahmoodi, an Iranian Kurd, outside a barber’s shop in Bedminster, Bristol, on 2 August last year as he was chatting with a friend. CCTV from inside the shop showed the 27-year-old turning and ducking at the last minute as she swung an axe at his neck. The teenager then tried to strike Mr Mahmoodi again, before he managed to disarm her, escaping with only painful scratches to his neck and cheek. She was then detained by police officers who had been on patrol nearby. They found a scalpel and several darts on her. Burns nodded when the arresting officer asked her if she had swung the axe at the man. When he asked her why, she said: “I wanted to cut his neck.” Police later discovered an email she had written to an associate, saying: “Kill all Jews and Muslims in Britain, please.” Burns, who hung an England flag above her bed, was a member of the Patriotic Alternative, a far-right group. Serena Gates KC, told Bristol Crown Court that Burns had “a desire for a white England, achieved, if necessary, through terror”.
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