The 24-year-old “Nazi sympathizer” began building a homemade submachine gun in his garage at Leamington Spa, “to kill Jews”, the court heard
- Ben Stiles is accused of publishing messages in an online group called “Kill All Jews”
- 24-year-old B-tec student tells friends Holocaust is Holocaust
- He allegedly told friends that he hoped the Holocaust was “real next time”
It is alleged that a Nazi supporter began building a homemade submachine gun in his garage to fulfill his “mission” to fight a religious war against Jews and other right-wing terrorists, the court said.
Birmingham The royal court heard Ben Stiles publish in an online group called “#Kill All the Jews” and described the Holocaust to friends as a “holohoax”, adding: “I hope the Holocaust is real next time.”
Prosecutors say the 24-year-old, who has a B-tec in engineering from Warwickshire College, told a friend he was “just getting as strong as possible for the war” and sent a picture on the lock screen of his phone, which has images of swastikas on it.
Ben Stiles is accused of publishing messages in an online group called “Kill All Jews”, heard the crown court in Birmingham
Referring to the locked screen, the accused claims that he told his friend: “Waking up and seeing this locked screen to start my day is much more important than some non-face clapper from the NHS who gave me shouts about the history of primary school. “
The court heard reports that were also recovered from Stiles in 2019 after the terrorist attack in Christchurch, New Zealand, which said: “I just returned from New Zealand – it made me a super racist. Then it happened and I had a good day.
Opening the case against Stiles on Friday, Attorney Matthew Brook said, “When you all went to court and looked at the defendant, you may have thought, ‘I wonder what he’s being tried for?’
“You were told then that this was a process of terrorism.
“I don’t know, but I suspect that may have surprised you, because most of us unconsciously think in stereotypes, and I suspect that the defendant, Ben Stiles, does not look like you expected him to look like a terrorist.
“In all lawsuits, the jury is asked to set aside stereotypes and decide the case based on the evidence it hears. This case is not completely different.
Mr Brook said a police search of the defendant’s garage at Leamington Spa found the bottom and top of a homemade submachine gun, as well as store-bought blanks along with manuals that “showed the reader how to turn blank bullets into working ones.” ammunition. “
The prosecutor said officers also found a Nazi fitness guide and a book entitled “The SS Family Every Year – SS Family Holidays.”
Mr Brook continued: “In this case, the evidence will prove that defendant Ben Stiles fully believes in far-right ideology.
“This is the distorted ideology of the Nazis and the superiority of white.
“Evidence will show that the defendant has collected manuals on an encrypted USB device with instructions on how to make weapons and how to make ammunition.
“When police searched his home on February 15 last year, he found that he had strictly and carefully followed the instructions in one of these manuals and was about to make a homemade submachine gun.
– He had also started producing ammunition.
“He had also written a manifesto that spoke of what he said was ‘working to fulfill my mission’ and set out his views on participating in a religious war against Jews and other targets of far-right terrorists.
“The evidence will show, it will prove that the defendant was preparing to commit a terrorist act.”
Styles of Plymouth Place, Leamington Spa, denies plotting a terrorist attack.
The process continues.
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