Muslim convert tasered at flat in Cornwall after threatening to shoot Jewish group Adam Burgoyne has a long history of committing crimes in Cornwall

(Cornwall Live) A Muslim convert threatened to carry out an atrocity against Jewish people before being tasered by armed police at his home in Cornwall.

Adam Mark Burgoyne, 31, contacted another Muslim man in [an] attempt to get him to help him but was quickly told it was not the way of the religion.

Burgoyne, of Trelawney Road in Helston, appeared at Truro Crown Court for sentence having pleaded guilty to sending malicious communications.

Opening the case, Brian Fitzherbert described how in February this year a Muslim man received a Facebook message from Burgoyne saying that he wanted to do something in the name of Allah.

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