A man who tried to kill a police officer armed with Molotov cocktails was imprisoned for a lifetime with a minimum term of 22 years.
28 -year -old Alexander Dighton of Pontyclun, Rhondda Cynon, wore body armor when he held an attack outside the Talbot Green Police Station.
The police said Dighton was interviewed by officers a year before the attack, but it is believed that he is not a threat.
Dighton injured several officers and confessed to trying to kill a police officer with a knife and was convicted in London in the old city of Bailey.
For the time Dighton spent on cardmate, he will spend a minimum 21 and 235 -day term until he is under consideration for probation.
The court heard that he also had a terrorist report requirements for 30 years.
Judge Mark Lucraft KC said Dighton’s crimes “satisfy all the crimes that have terrorist relationships.”
“You directed the police as the main stone of government power,” he added.
He added that Dighton wanted to make a statement that the Government had failed to fulfill its duties to support laws and order, and that his attack was “significant planning” to seek “serious violence.”
“I pay attention to your online activity shows more and more captures with problems such as diversity, pedophilia, immigration, anti-Rlam attitude and dissatisfaction with the Great British government,” he added.
Frank Ferguson, the head of the CPS Special Crime and the Fighting Division of Terrorism, said: “With his own confession, he wanted to take the life of a police officer, harm and spill blood.”
Dighton arrived in January at the Talbot Green Police Station, armed with a hat, a pillar and a Molotov cocktail.
While predicting his weapons, he told PC Stephanie Fleming, who encountered him, “I fed up, I finished.”
Dighton threw one Molotov cocktail at the police van, but he failed to ignite, so he poured gasoline on another and settled.
He then used a long wooden pillar to crush the van windows.
Dighton was crushed and sprayed with a “pair” spray, but he had no effect.
He attacked SGT Richard Coleman in the lobby of the station, struck by his head with a pillar and then poured Det’s con joshua emlyn.
Currently, three police officers have been trying to restrain Dighton, and he beat Det Con Jack Cotton in the leg by injuring him.
At a previous hearing, Dighton represented in court and confessed that an attempt to kill a knife tried to arson by attacking the other two police officers and threatening the third – found guilty of a total of 11 charges.
Two officials were treated in a hospital for their injuries.
The Judge told Old Bailey on Friday that officials were in a shock state and some thought they would die.
CH SUPT STEPEN JONES from South Wales police said [BBC]
Before convicted, CH Praised Stephen Jones from South Wales police said officers were “extremely good”, but said they had a “huge impact on” their families.
“Finally, officials are civil servants, but they are also parents, mothers, wives and men and sons and daughters, and their families were really sincere,” he said.
“We face these dangers and quite often,” he said.
He said officers had to respond to a “dedicated, lonely person who was extremely aggressive.”
After the CH surrounded by Jones claimed that Talbot Green had remained “very safe and quiet,” but admitted that he had suffered two separate main incidents within weeks.
“We increased patrols and increased the number of officers working from Talbot Green to protect the community,” he added.
At a previous hearing, Judge Cheema Grubb told the judge: “The institution is not my problem, and the use of the authorities I have seen since the age of 15 is my problem.”
Dighton was motivated by the anti -government ideology, and when he was arrested, he said, “I was doomed from birth.”
Police believe Dighton began planning his attack a month before the incident.
When his home in Pontyclun was sought in magazines that contained an anti -immigrant ideology and a return to a “traditional” society was found.
Det Supt Andrew Williams from Fighting Terrorism Police WaS believe that the initial estimate of Dighton was correct [BBC]
Dighton was already known for the fight against terrorism to the police in Wales and was interviewed by officers a year before the attack.
2024. January He was directed to the Prevent Program of the opposite extremism when his sister, where officers conducted a three -week Dighton evaluation.
Prosecutor Nicholas Hearn said she said he was “vulnerable because he had previously disappeared and tried suicide.”
Det Supt Andrew Williams from terrorism police Wales said: “He was directed to us after his concern for his anti-immigration position, his anti-islam position and general racist opinion.”
He said Dighton had been interviewed “long” and was conducted “checks in the right pronunciation” to make sure the officials “knew about him and his history.”
He said Dighton “did not meet the criteria” to include in the prevention program.
“There was no information from the evaluation or the shipment that would give any reference that Alexander Dight will continue, a year later, to carry out this type of attack,” said Det Supt Williams.
He said he thought the initial estimate of Dighton was correct.
“I am very convinced that they are officials in their skills and fully support them in making the decisions they made,” he said.
Asked if he was satisfied with Dighton was radicalized or not threatened, Det Supt Williams said, “I’m glad that it is, yes.”
Dighton previously found guilty of trying arson and trying to kill Det Con Jack Cotton.
He also acknowledged the attacked SGT Richard Coleman, threatening PC Stephanie Fleming, who attacked Det’s con joshua emlyn, with a customized wooden pillar as a weapon with a knife, having a hat, damaging the police minibus and damaging the second police van.