A former soldier from Nottingham who developed “entrenched right-wing views” and hatched a drink and drug-fuelled plan to burn down what he saw as a left-wing bookshop in the city centre has been jailed. Birmingham Crown Court heard how William Howitt bought a glass hammer online and decided to spray paint a swastika and the words “white lives matter” on the wall of the Five Leaves store. Calling what he wrote in a note on his phone “Plan A,” the 27-year-old, of West Bridgford, and who served his country for six years, viewed and downloaded antisemitic, anti-communist and pro-Nazi messages,...