00:00Callum Parslow, stand up.
00:03Taking account of all the matters which I have set out above, I have concluded that were I not passing a life sentence, the appropriate notional determinate sentence in your case would have been one of 34 years in total for all of your offending.
00:22It therefore follows that the sentence in your case for the offence of attempted murder should be one of life imprisonment with a minimum term of 22 years 8 months, being two thirds of that notional determinate sentence, less than 284 days that have been served on remand.
00:39One of the chilling features of your case is that after the event on the 2nd of April, the police found copies of the notorious extreme right wing manifestos written by terrorists who committed terrorist atrocities in Norway and New Zealand, undertaking multiple murders of entirely innocent strangers to promote their extreme views and beliefs.
01:05The way in which it was conducted, targeting an individual because of his position as someone seeking asylum, and its accompaniment by your manifesto, make clear that this attack was intended to intimidate a section of the public, namely people seeking asylum and those providing them with support,
01:28and that the attack was intended to further the interests of the violent extreme right wing ideology which you had adopted. This was undoubtedly a terrorist attack.
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