British man admits plotting to kill lawmaker with machete
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a man accused of being a member of a far-right extremist group on tuesday admitted buying a machete with the intention of killing an elected member of the british parliament1 jack renshaw changed his plea to guilty ahead of the start of a trial at londons old bailey court involving himself and five other men accused of being members of the white supremacist neo-nazi group national action1 the british government banned the group in 2016 following the murder of jo cox a member of parliament mp from the opposition labour party in a frenzied street attack by a nazi-obsessed loner a week before a referendum on eu membership1 the court heard that renshaw had bought a machete with the intention of killing rosie cooper another female labour mp1 renshaw also admitted a charge of threatening another man with a view to his killing a woman believing that the murder would take place1 in the event the crime did not happen. reutersnan1