Teen Tesco Worker Radicalized Online, Plotting Mass Shooting

0:00On May 1st, a 19-year-old Tesco worker from Essex named Alfie Coleman got busted for plotting a mass shooting as a white supremacist. He looked like your average gamer kid on the outside, but MI5 shut down his plan just as he grabbed a pistol and 188 rounds of AMO from an undercover agent's car in a London parking lot back in September 2023. After a retrial at the old Bailey, jurors nailed him for prepping terrorist acts. His radicalization kicked off around age 14 during lockdown, diving into neo-Nazi books and far-right docs on explosives and silent kills. By 2021, he was emailing groups like Patriotic Alternative, calling himself a proud white European, ready for activism, and drafting. Attack plans on his phone targeting spots like the Lord Mayor's House, or even a mosque. Meanwhile, his family had no clue. He'd isolated himself, ghosting friends and parents while chatting up mass killers like Dylan Roof online.

1:00Cops and MI5 went undercover on encrypted apps, watching him save 6,000 pounds from his job to buy guns, first eyeing France then switching to. London. On the pick-up day, he swapped cash for the macrooff pistol and strafford, but armed officers swarmed seconds later, taking him down in front of shocked. Shoppers. Rades on his home turned up knives, swastika gear, and far-right posters, plus prison notes quoting white supremacist logons. This case spotlights how the internet pulls in everyday teens for far-right hate, and Coleman's heading back to court soon for sentencing, a stark reminder that threats can brew right under our noses.