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An alleged white supremacist planned to fire Molotov cocktails through the windows of a hotel used to house migrants and kill as many occupants as possible, a court has heard. Mikka Anderson told a would-be accomplice that he had a crossbow and would fire the petrol bombs using some form of device in an attack on the Royal Hotel in Hull, jurors were told.
Hull Live reports that the defendant, from Hull, denies preparing an act of terrorism, including manufacturing Molotov cocktails and conducting “hostile reconnaissance” on the hotel. He also denies possessing knives and other weapons for terrorist purposes, Newcastle Crown Court was told.
Adam Birkby, prosecuting, told jurors that Anderson met a man, who cannot be identified by the media for legal reasons, in Hull city centre in February and outlined “his plan to attack the Royal Hotel by the city’s railway station, and to kill as many of the migrants who were housed inside as possible.
Mr Birkby said that during the meeting, where the two men laid down their phones, Anderson revealed: “that he had a crossbow and that he had created some form of device that he would use to launch the Molotov cocktails through the hotel windows”.
The defendant believed the would-be accomplice to be a fellow patriot who might join the plot, but Mr Birkby said that was a “fatal error” as he went to the police two days later. Anderson was arrested, and police found knives, a crossbow and petrol bombs during a search of his home.
Officers examined his phone and found his plans for “terrorist violence” were motivated by extreme right-wing ideology, Mr Birkby said. He had a copy of Anarchist’s Cookbook, which the prosecution described as “a how-to guide for the wannabe terrorist”.
