By Tania Snuggs, news reporter
A white supremacist sparked a full-scale security alert after sending fake poison to the Queen, with a note saying: "The Clowns R Coming 4 You", a court has heard.
David Parnham, who called himself "Muslim Slayer", is being sentenced at the Old Bailey after pleading guilty to 15 offences relating to hundreds of letters he wrote over a two-year period from June 2016.
The 36-year-old from Lincoln has admitted encouraging murder, making hoaxes involving noxious substances and bombs, sending letters with intent to cause distress, and encouraging offences.
The court heard he posted similar messages to the one sent to the Queen to former prime minister Theresa May, the Home Office and two bishops, which contained white powder in October 2016.
In them, he made an apparent reference to reports of attacks by people dressed as clowns.
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As a result, a Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear response was launched, the Old Bailey was told.
It left members of the Royal Household concerned for their health and that of their colleagues, with some staff kept apart from each other for hours as the substance was identified.
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A letter was also sent to another former prime minister David Cameron, while messages posted to MPs and mosques used racist language.
The court heard Parnham also caused widespread panic with his "Punish A Muslim Day" hate campaign.
Correspondence was sent to Berkeley Street Mosque in Hull which contained a drawing of a sword with a swastika on it cutting someone's head off.
It also contained the words "You are going to be slaughtered very soon" and was signed off as "Muslim Slayer".
Democrat peer Lord Hussain described his "total shock" at receiving a poison letter after it was sent on to his home address by the House of Lords when he was ill.
In a victim impact statement read out in court, he said: "As I read it for the first time I felt total shock at its contents as well as fear, not only for myself but for my family, my home and all other Muslims.
"I have lived in this country for 47 years and have never before seen or read anything like this."
During the sentencing hearing, it was revealed Parnham did not consider what he had done as "particular serious" or regret his actions, according to a psychiatrist.
Dr Martin Lock said: "He told me if he went to prison it would be one Read More – Source
