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Anwar Hussein

Detention order for 'ginger extremist' who plotted to kill Charles so Harry could be king

Mark Colborne was convicted in September of preparing terrorist acts.

A “GINGER EXTREMIST” convicted of plotting to kill Britain’s Prince Charles so his red-haired son Harry might become king has been was sentenced to indefinite detention.

Mark Colborne, 37, compared himself to the Norwegian extremist Anders Behring Breivik and wrote in his notebook of his plans to “put a bullet in Charles’ head” to avenge the discrimination that he felt red-heads suffered.

Colborne was convicted in September of preparing terrorist acts and during sentencing today, judge John Bevan called him an extraordinarily “warped individual” who displayed “extravagant self-pity”.

“You have been consumed with rage at disparate individuals and groups and you write in graphic terms of bombing and butchery,” he said.

You are, I regret to say, a warped individual who in the past has held views of your fellow man which were repugnant to right-thinking people.

Racial hatred 

Colborne was arrested on 3 June last year after his half-brother discovered papers detailing his racial hatred and chemicals at the family home in Southampton, on the southern English coast.

“I would sacrifice my life for that one shot. Kill Charles and William and Harry become king. Kill the tyrants,” he wrote in one entry.

“I want them to see my transition from poor red-haired victimised minority that is constantly walked over to a fully transformed military terrorist,” he added.

He got information from the internet about producing viable explosives and had books containing recipes for producing lethal poisons like cyanide.

Colborne dismissed the diary entries as “angry rants” made when he was off medication for depression.

The judge ordered Colborne to be detained under section 37 of the Mental Health Act “without limit of time” and he is expected to receive treatment for psychosis at a secure unit in Hampshire, southern England.

As the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II, Charles is the heir to the throne. Second in line is his eldest son Prince William, followed by William’s two children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte.

Harry, William’s ginger-haired younger brother, is fifth in line.

© AFP 2015

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    Dec 22nd 2015, 8:10 PM

    #YouAintNoGingerBruv

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    Mute Beachmaster
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    Dec 22nd 2015, 7:57 PM

    Cue the ginger apologists!

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    Dec 22nd 2015, 8:01 PM

    Any ginger jokes are like to get red-thumbed. Why? Because it’s Christmas week and every other normal non-ginger is out getting laid and having fun,.

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    Dec 22nd 2015, 8:43 PM

    Orange IS the new black

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    Dec 22nd 2015, 7:58 PM

    harry doesn’t have lineage to the throne O_O

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    Dec 22nd 2015, 8:08 PM

    He does.

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    Dec 22nd 2015, 8:13 PM
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    Dec 22nd 2015, 8:18 PM

    Read it again. You numpty.

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    Dec 22nd 2015, 8:35 PM

    @Jessie Prince Henry is Harry. The fifth in line.

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    Dec 22nd 2015, 8:42 PM

    Am I missing some here ? Why is so many agreeing with Jessie ?

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    Mute Suzie Sunshine
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    Dec 22nd 2015, 8:52 PM

    *something*

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    Dec 22nd 2015, 10:11 PM

    Suzie, it could be that he’s officially known as Henry and not Harry.

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    Dec 22nd 2015, 10:17 PM

    But Mark what difference does that make ?

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    Mute Mark Malone
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    Dec 22nd 2015, 10:37 PM

    Original poster was being a little tongue in cheek as in there is no one named Harry on the succession list.

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    Dec 22nd 2015, 10:40 PM

    Lol that’s the bit I missed !

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    Dec 22nd 2015, 8:12 PM

    I’m sure Major James Hewitt is RAGING his son missed the chance to be king.

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    Dec 22nd 2015, 9:00 PM

    Who said he’s missed it.. “Accidents” do seem to happen a lot in that family …

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    Dec 22nd 2015, 9:12 PM

    True

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    Dec 22nd 2015, 8:32 PM

    Well it has already been suggested that demonising groups of people leads to radicalisation and more extremists. Everyone was happy to ginger-bash a la South Park or Harry Hill as it was the last bastion that political correctness had not reached. Surprised that something like this hasn’t happened sooner. Think the only thing saving you all is that gingers are usually solitary and have to avoid hot sun so less opportunity to organise! (I am one, before anyone thinks I’m serious)

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    Dec 22nd 2015, 8:06 PM

    I read this out to my uncle and he thought I was talking about a film on the telly!!! Fact stranger than fiction!!!

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    Dec 22nd 2015, 10:43 PM

    Poor lad, ironic thing is it was the coppers who foiled his devious plan in the end

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    Dec 22nd 2015, 8:04 PM

    Gingers don’t have souls!

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    Dec 22nd 2015, 8:56 PM

    That’s not true. For every soul a ginger steals they get a freckle…..

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    Dec 22nd 2015, 7:59 PM

    I was wondering what all the Neil Lennon fuss was about

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    Dec 22nd 2015, 8:10 PM

    That fella should have moved to somewhere in the world where there’s little history of discrimination against gingers.

    Like China or central Africa.

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    Dec 22nd 2015, 8:45 PM

    Ginger Akbar

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    Dec 22nd 2015, 7:56 PM

    Duke of Edinburgh men at it again..

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    Dec 22nd 2015, 9:50 PM

    Thought this was Waterford whispers for a second

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    Dec 23rd 2015, 12:49 PM

    Is it true gingers have no souls ?

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    Dec 23rd 2015, 12:48 PM

    Is this a joke ??

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    Dec 23rd 2015, 1:52 PM

    A very similar thing happened during the reign of George the third.
    A guy who believed that he himself was Jesus Christ tried to kill the English king.
    When the madman was asked why he did it he announced that Jesus must die for the sins of the world but he knew that suicide was a mortal sin.
    He wanted the king to execute him.
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    The king did not oblige.
    The king locked him up in the “Bedlam” madhouse and threw away the key.

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    Dec 23rd 2015, 2:10 PM

    P.S.
    As for King George…it took one to know one.

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