Hawzah News Agency - (Lincoln - UK) - A white supremacist who produced a leaflet titled 'Punish a Muslim Day' wrote to an American mass murderer thanking him for opening his eyes, a court heard today.

David Parnham, 36, of Lincoln, also sent hundreds of hate-filled letters to the Queen and Theresa May over a two-year period between June 2016 and his arrest last June.

Parnham penned a note of admiration to US white supremacist to Dylann Roof who shot dead nine black parishioners in South Carolina in 2016, the Old Bailey heard.

Diana Wilson, prosecuting, read passages from the letter, which had Parnham's DNA on it. It said: 'I just wanted to thank you for opening my eyes.

'Ever since you carried out what I call the cleansing I felt different about racial difference. I hate these animals with a passion.

'I sent letters with white powder to mosques, they had to shut down Parliament because of it. This just reflects how much I respond you.