Alan Edward, 55, was jailed for 10 years and will serve another five years on licence after being sentenced at the High Court in Glasgow. 

He was also made subject of a serious crime prevention order which will be in place for five years after his release from prison and has also been made subject to the notification requirements detailed in part 4 of the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 for 30 years.   

Edward kept a large cache of weapons in his Falkirk home and discussed plans to attack an LGBTQ+ group during online conversations with another man. 

When armed police raided his property in September 2022, they uncovered a haul of deadly weapons including a crossbow with telescopic sights, 14 knives with some featuring Nazi insignia, machetes, a Samurai sword and a stun gun disguised as a torch. 

They also recovered a skull mask and hunting tips for crossbow arrows.  

Following a trial at the High Court in Stirling, Edward was found guilty of four charges under the Terrorism Act.  

This included possessing weapons with a reasonable suspicion that they were for a purpose connected with “the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism”.  

He was also found guilty of inciting racial and antisemitic hatred and Holocaust denial.  

Further offences included inviting support for a banned organisation, encouraging acts of terrorism, circulating terrorist publications, firearms offences and producing and supplying cannabis. 

Sineidin Corrins, deputy procurator fiscal for specialist casework at the Crown Office, said: “Alan Edward gloried in being a propagandist for an extremist ideology, which exists for a malign purpose, and invited others to support those views. 

“The offences he committed were deeply disturbing. But he will now spend a lengthy period in prison to account for his crimes. 

“COPFS has a duty to keep the people of Scotland safe from harm and, working with police and other agencies, we are committed to ensuring that those involved in committing offences under terrorism legislation are brought to justice. 

“COPFS will always seek to prosecute those who commit, prepare for, instigate or encourage terrorism.”