Jack Renshaw was jailed for plotting to kill a then-Labour MP
Jack Renshaw was jailed for plotting to kill a then-Labour MP
Neo-nazi terrorist and paedophile Jack Renshaw has been attacked in prison, the Ministry of Justice has confirmed. Renshaw, from Skelmersdale, was jailed in 2019 for plotting to kill then-Labour MP Rosie Cooper.
Renshaw was jailed at HMP Wakefield, dubbed ‘Monster Mansion’ due to the number of high-profile inmates locked up at the Category A prison, including Liverpool parade attacker Paul Doyle, murderer and child molester Sidney Cooke, and the UK’s most prolific rapist, Reynhard Sinaga.
Previous inmates include the UK’s most prolific serial killer Harold Shipman and former Lostprophets frontman and convicted child sex offender Ian Watkins. Watkins was stabbed to death at the prison in October.
In December, three fellow inmates pleaded not guilty to the murder of child killer Kyle Bevan, found dead at HMP Wakefield the previous month.
The Ministry of Justice confirmed Renshaw was attacked at the prison on December 9. Renshaw, 30, was jailed for at least 20 years for a 2017 plot to murder West Lancashire MP Rosie Cooper and exact revenge on a female police officer who was investigating him for child sex offences.
Renshaw bought a 19-inch (48cm) Gladius knife as he plotted to kill the MP just a year after the murder of Jo Cox. He made an online search for “how long to die after jugular cut” and researched Rosie Cooper’s schedule.
The plan was scuppered by whistleblower Robbie Mullen, who was at a meeting in a pub when Renshaw announced his intentions in July 2017, one year after Labour MP Jo Cox was murdered by a far-right extremist.
Renshaw became more extreme as he made his way through British far-right groups like English Democrats and the British National Party, before settling on National Action. National Action became the first far-right organisation banned in Britain since WWII after it celebrated the murder of Jo Cox MP by a white supremacist in 2016.
Two months before sentencing at the Old Bailey in May 2019, Renshaw also received a three-year prison sentence when he was found guilty of stirring up racial hatred after he called for the genocide of Jewish people.
Renshaw was found guilty of four counts of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity during a trial at Preston Crown Court in 2018. The former leader of the British National Party youth wing set up two fake Facebook profiles and contacted the boys, aged 13 and 14, between February 2016 and January 2017. He boasted he was rich, could give the boys jobs, asked for intimate pictures and even offered £300 to one boy to spend the night with him.
Renshaw had claimed he was set up by the anti-fascist group Hope not Hate in a bid to discredit him, accusing them of hacking his mobile phone and sending the sexual messages to the teenagers, but jurors rejected this claim.
Yesterday (January 11), the ECHO revealed that well-known far-right agitator, Ryan Ferguson, 26, visited Renshaw at Wakefield. Ferguson was previously investigated by police for allegedly advocating the return of banned neo-Nazi group National Action.
Ferguson told his thousands of followers that he was travelling to HMP Wakefield to meet Renshaw, after the caged terrorist “asked someone to ask me to come in”. Convicted criminal Ferguson, from Netherton, added: “People can say what they want about me going to see Jack today…I will not shy away that I’m going to see [him].”
A Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: “The police are investigating an incident that took place at HMP Wakefield. We take a zero tolerance approach to violence across the prison estate and any perpetrators will be punished.”
