Neo-Nazi who plotted to kill Labour MP 'is left disfigured after vicious attack with makeshift knife' at HMP Wakefield
White supremacist Jack Renshaw, 30, who plotted to kill a Labour MP with a machete, has been left disfigured after a fellow prisoner slashed 'the length of his face' at HMP Wakefield.
By FRANCINE WOLFISZ, NEWS REPORTER
Published: 00:38 GMT, 11 January 2026 | Updated: 00:44 GMT, 11 January 2026
A neo-Nazi who plotted to kill a Labour MP with a machete has been left disfigured after a fellow prisoner slashed 'the length of his face' with a makeshift knife.
White supremacist Jack Renshaw, who was handed a life sentence in 2019 over his plan to murder Labour MP Rosie Cooper, is said to have been 'striped' during a vicious assault outside his cell at HMP Wakefield.
It is believed the 30-year-old was targeted because of his far-right views.
At his trial it emerged that he had criticised Adolf Hitler for showing 'mercy' to Jewish people and had called for their genocide, leading to a conviction in 2018 for racial hatred.
Renshaw also reportedly made a Nazi salute towards his supporters as he was led from the dock to his cell after his 2019 trial.
A source told The Sun that Renshaw was 'lucky to survive' the attack.
'He was slashed with a makeshift "shank" knife and left with a gaping wound running the length of his face.
'There was blood everywhere. Guards rushed to the scene and stopped it being worse than it was — but it was already pretty bad.'
White supremacist Jack Renshaw, who plotted to kill a Labour MP with a machete, has been left disfigured after a fellow prisoner slashed 'the length of his face' with a makeshift knife
Renshaw said to have been 'striped' during a vicious assault outside his cell at HMP Wakefield
The attack comes just two months after Lostprophets frontman Ian Watkins, 48, was fatally stabbed in the neck at the same prison
Renshaw, of Skelmersdale, Lancashire, was given a minimum 20-year term after admitting preparing an act of terrorism.
His trial had heard that Renshaw had wanted to 'replicate' the murder of Labour politician Jo Cox a year earlier in 2016.
He purchased a 19-inch replica Roman sword to assassinate Rosie Cooper, but the plan was foiled by whistleblower Robbie Mullen, who was at a meeting in a pub when Renshaw announced he was going to kill the MP in July 2017.
After the pub meeting, Mr Mullen, from Widnes, Cheshire, reported the threat to Hope Not Hate and Renshaw was arrested.
Mr Mullen, who was granted immunity from prosecution, told jurors: 'He said he was going to kill his local MP, Rosie Cooper. I said "Are you sure?" and he said "Yeah".
'He said he would kill her, then try to take some hostages to lure the police officer that was investigating him to try to kill her because she was the reason behind it all.