Three British neo-Nazi extremists brought together by their shared hate of non-whites were jailed Friday for up to 11 years for planning attacks on ethnic and religious minorities.
Christopher Ringrose, 35, Marco Pitzettu, 25, and Brogan Stewart, 25, were found guilty earlier in 2025 of preparing acts of terrorism.
The trio were also convicted of collecting information likely to be useful to a person preparing or committing an act of terrorism, while Ringrose was found guilty of manufacturing a prohibited weapon.
They had acquired “many weapons, including crossbows, swords and knives” to use in their attacks, judge Johannah Cutts said in sentencing them.
Ringrose had also 3D-printed most of the components of a semi-automatic firearm.
Cutts jailed Stewart for 11 years, Ringrose for 10 years, and Pitzettu for eight years.
The trio hatched their plans online and are not believed to have met in the real world before they appeared together in the dock at Sheffield Crown Court in central England.
They planned to attack an Islamic Education Center in Leeds, northern England, before they were arrested by counter-terror police.
Jurors in May rejected claims they were fantasists with no intention of carrying out their threats.
Cutts said the trio’s neo-Nazi ideology was “laid bare” in a 374-page dossier of internet activity put before the jury.
“These pages were filled with hate towards black and other non-white races, especially Muslim people and immigrants,” Cutts added.
She noted they shared “ideas of white supremacy and racial purity together with a belief that there must soon be a race war.”
This was paired with “glorification and admiration of the policies and actions of Hitler and the German Nazi Party, including antisemitism, and of mass killers who had targeted black or Muslim communities.”
