White supremacist who sent ‘Punish a Muslim’ letters jailed for 12 years

A self-styled ‘Muslim slayer’ who sent fake poison to the Queen with a note saying ‘The Clowns R Coming 4 You’ has been jailed.

David Parnham, 36, sparked a huge security alert after also posting similar letters containing white powder to then-PM Theresa May, former PM David Cameron, two bishops and the Home Office.

The White supremacist also sent ‘Punish a Muslim Day’ mail urging people to attack and kill Muslims during a two year hate campaign, the Old Bailey heard.

He was arrested by counter-terrorism police as part of an intelligence operation and admitted 15 offences including soliciting to murder, making hoaxes involving noxious substances and bombs and sending letters with intent to cause distress.

The court heard Parnham wrote to American white supremacist Dylann Roof, praising the killer for shooting dead nine black parishioners in Charleston, South Carolina in December 2016.

He thanked Roof for ‘opening my eyes’ and said he wanted to kill ethic minorities because it ‘turns me on’.

The letter, read out in court, said: ‘I hate these animals with a passion.

‘I sent letters with white powder to mosques, they had to shut down Parliament because of it.

‘This just reflects how much I respond you.’

He added: ‘I would like to kill its more of a sexual thing.

‘The idea of killing turns me on.’

Dr Zara Johnson Elsheikh, Chair of the Counter-Terrorism Advisory Group, said Parnham spread ‘genuine fear and paranoia’ across Muslim communities.

His hate-fuelled actions included sending a ‘Great Cleanse’ series of letters to mosques across London, which contained white powder and various threats.

Dr Paul Wallang, a consultant forensic psychiatrist, saw Parnham behind bars in December last year and said he had untreated psychosis for many years.

Parnham, from Lincoln, must serve a 12 year and six month sentence in hospital until he is well enough to be transferred to prison.