Neo-Nazi, 23, who plotted to kill Labour MP with a machete is unmasked as a convicted paedophile who groomed boys as young as 13 after jury fails to reach verdict in National Action trial
- Jack Renshaw is a convicted paedophile who plotted to kill MP Rosie Cooper
- He also plotted to kill DC Victoria Henderson who exposed his abuse of boys
- The 23-year-old was convicted last year before he went on trial for plotting to kill those who exposed him
Jack Renshaw (pictured above) had admitted engaging in conduct in preparation for a terrorist act and making threats to kill
A Neo-Nazi who had been dubbed as the next leader of the British National Party (BNP) was found guilty of grooming boys as young as 13 after plotting to kill a Labour MP and the detective who exposed him.
Jack Renshaw purchased a 19-inch ‘Gladius Machete’ replica Roman sword and revealed his plans to kill MP Rosie Cooper during a meeting at a Warrington pub.
It can now be revealed that the 23-year-old is also a convicted paedophile who plotted to kill DC Victoria Henderson, the detective who exposed his abuse of underage boys.
He was convicted of grooming the boys in June last year at Preston Crown Court before he went on trial at the Old Bailey for plotting to kill Ms Cooper and DC Henderson.
Renshaw, who was a former youth leader of the far-right BNP, and was once tipped as a future leader planned to take hostages after killing the Labour MP to lure Ms Henderson into a deadly ambush.
But today a second Old Bailey jury failed to reach a verdict that he had been a member of National Action along with Andrew Clarke and Michal Trubini.
The prosecution announced there would be no third trial and as a result Clarke and Trubini are expected to walk free later today.
It was revealed that Renshaw had engaged in sex with a 15-year-old after making the teen send him pictures of his genitals.
Picture above shows swords recovered by police from the ringleader of banned Neo Nazi terror group National Action
Jack Renshaw (pictured above) had previously attended National Action rallies before plotting to kill an MP
He made another boy, between the ages of 13 and 14, take a photo of his buttocks and send it to him after they engaged in ‘touching of a sexual nature’.
Renshaw had admitted engaging in conduct in preparation for a terrorist act and making threats to kill.
Jack Renshaw had plotted to kill Rosie Cooper (pictured outside the Old Bailey)
Mrs Justice McGowan remanded Renshaw in custody ahead of sentence on a date to be fixed.
Renshaw was arrested on 11 January 2017 for stirring up racial hatred in relation to two speeches he made, and as a part of the investigation his phone was examined.
DC Henderson discovered evidence of Renshaw’s perverted affairs with the underage boys and arrested him again on 19 May.
Renshaw had told DC Henderson in interview that she was fabricating evidence for ‘the two worst things anyone could be – a homosexual and a paedophile’.
He was released on bail and began researching DC Henderson in preparation for the revenge attack.
The paedophile was so determined to stop the detective revealing his paedophilia that he plotted to kill his local MP in a pub, take hostages and lure in Ms Henderson to silence her before committing ‘suicide by cop’.
He told the Old Bailey he spent just under a month planning to kill Ms Cooper to ‘send the state a message’.
Renshaw had criticised Adolf Hitler for what he believed was showing Jewish people ‘mercy’.
Jurors heard a speech he delivered to the Yorkshire Forum for Nationalists in 2016 in which he said: ‘I do actually have some problem with the statement ‘Hitler was right’ in many senses but you know where he was wrong?
‘He showed mercy. He showed mercy to people who did not deserve mercy.
‘As nationalists, we need to learn from the mistakes of the National Socialists and we need to realise that no, you do not show the Jew mercy.’
Renshaw had planned to make a ‘white jihad’ video explaining his motives for the terror attack. But he was arrested on 5 July 2017.
Renshaw was convicted of four counts of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, between February 2016 and January 2017, and two counts of inciting racial hatred.
He had also conducted internet searches during May 2017 in relation to cutting of the jugular artery and how long it would take to die after suffering such a wound in preparation for his plan.
Case of missing Blackpool girl sparked Renshaws’ far-right involvement
Charlene Downes (pictured above) went missing when she was 14-years-old
Jack Renshaw’s interest in far-right politics was ignited when extremist groups sought to exploit the case of missing 14-year-old girl Charlene Downes.
In 2007, a murder trial jury at Preston Crown Court was told of claims that Charlene’s body was chopped up and had ‘gone into kebabs’ after she disappeared in Renshaw’s home town of Blackpool in November 2003.
Charlene was said to be among a number of young white girls who gravitated to the resort’s takeaways to have sex with older men.
A takeway boss charged with murder and an associate who was accused of helping dispose of her body were formally acquitted after the jury failed to reach verdicts.
But both the British National Party and the English Defence League continued to exploit the case.
Former leader and then North West MEP Nick Griffin met Renshaw and invited him to take up a two-week work experience placement in Brussels, according to Renshaw.
He went on to run the youth wing of the BNP while he studied economics and politics at Manchester Metropolitan University and stood as a candidate for the party in a Blackpool council ward by-election in October 2014. He received 17 votes.
In 2007, a murder trial jury at Preston Crown Court (pictured above) was told of claims that Charlene’s body was chopped up and had ‘gone into kebabs’
As time went on Renshaw said his ‘political evolution’ led to him becoming an ‘outright nationalist socialist’ who thought Griffin was mistakenly trying to portray himself as moderate.
Details of Renshaw’s background emerged during two trials last year at Preston Crown Court where he was convicted of stirring up racial hatred and inciting two underage boys to engage in sexual activity.
During the latter trial he denied a sexual interest in children and said he had campaigned against child grooming since he was aged 14 and got involved in the ‘Justice for Charlene Downes’ cause.
Renshaw , 23, was born in Ormskirk and raised in Skelmersdale – which he described as ‘a very white town’ – but moved to Blackpool with his mother when she split from his father.
From 2015 to early 2017 he expressed his nationalist views on Facebook, Twitter and certain encrypted messaging apps.
Renshaw, 23, told jurors: ‘When we were contacting each other, nationalists, we like to keep our messages covert so we would use e-mail services such as Tutanota and Telegram.
‘We would use these so it would be harder for our opponents to find out about our plans and activities.’
Claiming he was a ‘principled nationalist’ who was currently not a member of any political organisation, he said: ‘I hold the same views but I don’t see any vehicle out there which works to express them.