LONDON — A man from the South Coast of England has become the world’s first convicted ginger terrorist. 
 
 After decades of perceived abuse for his red hair, Mark Colborne, 37, stockpiled the ingredients required for an arsenal of chemical weapons that he was planning to deploy against “blacks and Caucasian idiots,” officials say. 
 
 On behalf of his ginger “brothers,” the man’s ultimate aim was to assassinate Prince Charles and Prince William so that the British crown could be placed on the red head of Prince Harry. 
 
 Colborne was found guilty Tuesday in London of preparing terrorist acts after his family found the substances needed to make cyanide in his bedroom along with dust masks, a spray bottle, gloves, and a chemical that would help the poison penetrate his victims’ skin. 
 
 He had also amassed a small library of manuals that may have helped him commit an atrocity, including The Poor Man’s James Bond, which was compiled by former American Nazi Party member and survivalist Kurt Saxon. 
 
 More alarming than the recipes for napalm, cyanide, and ricin were the journals penned by Colborne that spelled out his terrifying hair-color-based ideology. 
 
 “I want them to see my transition from poor red-haired victimized minority that is constantly walked over to a fully transformed military terrorist striking at the hearts of the bigoted tyrannical rulers and of course the dark-haired dark-eyes Caucasian race,” he wrote. “I will be heard through terror.” 
 
 Authorities say Colborne once joined the far-right British National Party, which is associated with a history of racist views, and he studied a copy of Mein Kampf. There is, after all, very little ginger-supremacist material available outside the Angry Ginger Kid YouTube video and the work of red-headed Australian singer Tim Minchin, whose song “Prejudice” includes the words: 
 
 So listen to me if you care for your health / You won’t call me ginger ’less you’re ginger yourself / Only a ginger can call another ginger, ginger 
 
 With no obvious ginger-power leaders to look up to, Colborne had to be more imaginative. He wrote: “The IRA are my heroes—acting as a small military force taking on a wealthy power, and of course red hair being associated with their history.” 
 
 Colborne’s brother, who gave evidence in court, discovered the journals, which contained graphic threats of violence alongside recollections of taunting. “There were also a number of comments about being attacked and abused when younger... and being laughed at and bullied because he was ginger. All of what I had found scared and concerned me greatly,” he said. 
 
 Kevin Colborne also discovered receipts for pine charcoal and sodium phosphate, which he was shocked to discover online were used to manufacture explosives. He immediately went to get his mother from work. 
 
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 “Mum was the first person into the room... She picked up a cardboard box and we gathered round. I can recall pulling out a bottle of distilled water, scales, iron oxide, and a brown bottle,” he said. “Mum was having a look around and also on the floor. She found a book called Assorted Nasties. It appeared to be a book on poisons and how they could be used.” 
 
 Despite his mother’s protests, Kevin called the police. 
 
 Detectives would later uncover details of his plots to commit mass murder against non-gingers. “I don’t want to be a serial killer. I’m more of an Anders Breivik,” wrote Colborne, citing the Norwegian right-wing terrorist who killed 77 people in 2011. “I’m looking for major retribution, a mass terrorist attack which will bring to the attention our pain not just mine but my brothers around the world.” 
 
 Colborne wrote in his journal that he wanted to set off a bomb in his hometown. “I would like to create a huge explosion in Southampton town centre or in a pub full of Caucasians and then tell the newspapers the reason for the attack,” he said. “I’ve often thought of following a Caucasian, killing him and taking his head.” 
 
 In his lurid diary entries, he described himself and fellow redheads as Aryans, locked in battle with the black and Caucasian communities. 
 
 His most outlandish plot was to install Prince Harry as king of the gingers. “Wouldn’t it be great to have a military silent rifle, take up a good stealth position and put a bullet in Charles’ head. I would sacrifice my life for that one shot,” he wrote. “Kill Charles and William, and Harry become king. 
 
 “Kill the tyrants.” ||||| A man who felt “belittled by society” for being a white, ginger-haired male and fantasised about shooting Prince Charles so Prince Harry could be king has been found guilty of plotting a terror attack “for the Aryan people”. 
 
 Mark Colborne, 37, compared himself to the Norwegian far-right terrorist Anders Breivik – who killed 77 people in 2011 – and made notes in a diary detailing plans to assassinate the royal heir with a sniper rifle. He also acquired manuals entitled Assorted Nasties, Silent Death and The Poor Man’s James Bond, jurors were told. 
 
 Alison Darlow QC, prosecuting, told a court that the defendant had trawled the internet for explosives and poisons and bought books on the subject. He allegedly bought chemicals online that formed the essential ingredients for cyanide and stockpiled dust masks, metal filter funnels, plastic syringes and latex gloves. 
 
 Colborne was arrested on 3 June last year after his half-brother found papers detailing his racial hatred in his bedroom at the family home in Southampton. 
 
 The Old Bailey in London heard how Colborne had written of his wish to carry out a terror attack, stating: “I will put a major dent in England, one that is felt around the world. If for some reason I cannot perform a major operation, then I will still opt for low-level attacks.” 
 
 Comparing himself to rightwing extremists, he said: “I’m looking for major retribution, a mass terrorist attack which will bring to the attention our pain – not just mine but my brothers’ around the world.” 
 
 In March last year, Colborne bought various ingredients for cyanide, the court heard. On 3 June, Kevin Colborne came across receipts for chemicals his brother had bought while preparing to decorate the home. 
 
 He became concerned after learning that the chemicals could be used for fireworks and alerted his mother, Patricia. Together they went into Colborne’s “extremely cluttered” bedroom, uncovered an assortment of chemicals, the books and other equipment, and called the police. 
 
 Darlow told the court that the defendant had depression and agoraphobia and had led a relatively isolated life. She said: “He clearly had experienced a troubled childhood and perceived himself as marginalised and belittled by society because he was a white, ginger-haired male.” 
 
 A jury could not agree a verdict after a trial earlier this year, but Colborne was found guilty at the Old Bailey following a retrial. A jury deliberated for more than 14 hours to deliver its majority verdict on Tuesday. 
 
 The jury rejected allegations that Colborne possessed chemicals to make cyanide and dimethyl sulfoxide and stockpiled paraphernalia including syringes, screw-top spray and face masks. 
 
 Judge John Bevan QC adjourned sentencing until Tuesday 3 November. Colborne showed no emotion as the verdict was delivered. 
 
 Investigating officer Det Sgt Andy Hedley said: “It is clear from our investigation that Mark Colborne is a fantasist who had ideas and plans about committing acts that could cause great harm to other people.The 37-year-old went beyond the realms of fantasy when he wrote down his intentions and bought the chemicals that would have enabled him to carry out these plans. 
 
 “Fortunately, he didn’t ever carry out any of these plans and from all the evidence we found, Colborne had not progressed to actually making poisons or viable devices that would have presented an immediate threat to the community.” 
 
 He added: “I would like to thank and praise Colborne’s family who were brave in coming forward to tell us about concerns they had about his behaviour.”
– A man who felt "belittled" for having red hair has been found guilty of plotting terrorist acts from his bedroom in the UK. Prosecutors say Mark Colborne, 37, was found with handwritten notes and books describing how to make lethal poisons like napalm, cyanide, and ricin, as well as ingredients, dust masks, a spray bottle, latex gloves, metal filter funnels, plastic syringes, and a chemical that would help poison penetrate skin, per the Daily Beast and Guardian. Alongside recollections of bullying, Colborne also wrote about "putting a bullet in Prince Charles's head" and killing Prince William so that a red-haired Prince Harry could be king, reports the BBC. "I don't want to be a serial killer. I'm more of an Anders Breivik. I have left potential targets open," he wrote. "I was waiting for an opportunity to kill one of them." His writings also expressed hatred toward "non-Aryans" whom he called "blacks and Caucasian idiots." "I want them to see my transition from poor red-haired victimized minority … to a fully transformed military terrorist striking at the hearts of the bigoted tyrannical rulers and of course the dark-haired dark-eyes Caucasian race," wrote Colborne, who suffered from agoraphobia and depression. "I'm looking for major retribution, a mass terrorist attack which will bring to the attention our pain, not just mine but my brothers' around the world." Police were alerted to the case last June when Colborne's mom and brother came upon his stash. "It is a very strange case involving, if I may say it, a very strange person," the judge said. A jury found Colborne guilty in a 10-2 decision after 14 hours of deliberations. He'll be sentenced Nov. 3.