Ian Davison is a British

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 unemployed lorry

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 driver, white supremacist, and neo-Nazi who was arrested in 2009 for planning terrorist attacks. Davison's then-18-year-old son Nicky, a milk man's assistant, was also arrested at the same time.
At the time of his arrest, Davison, then 41, was the leader of a group called the Aryan Strike Force, which held secret training days in Cumbria

Cumbria

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 at which swastika

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 flags were flown. The ASF had an estimated worldwide membership of 350, including members in Germany

Germany

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 and Serbia

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. Police discovered that he had been constructing pipe bomb

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s and purchasing castor beans, the latter of which is used to make the poison ricin

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. According to police investigators, enough ricin was discovered at Davison's Burnopfield

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 residence to kill over 1000 people, while a prosecutor put the number of potential victims at 9. The ricin, which Davison kept in a pickled onion jar was subsequently transferred to the government's chemical weapons centre. Davison had also reportedly discussed poisoning Muslims' water supplies.

Davison is also anti-Semitic, writing on an internet forum that "The Jew is the Aryan's sworn enemy above all."

Davison was subsequently sentenced to 10 years in prison. His son Nicky was given two years' detention. The two reportedly possessed and distributed copies of the bomb-making manuals The Anarchist's Cookbook and The Poor Man's James Bond

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. The judge in the case expressed surprise that these books were still available for sale on Amazon.com

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 and urged the website to stop selling them. Nicky Davison admitted to going along with his father's racist views, but he said it was because he wanted to please his father, not because he shared the views himself. The younger Davison claimed that his favourite music was rap

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 and R&B, but that his father would yell at him and call him a wigger

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any time he caught him listening to these styles of music.