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A homophobic neo-Nazi terrorist has been detained indefinitely in a psychiatric hospital after plotting an axe and machete attack on a pub's gay pride night.
Armed police swooped on 20-year-old Ethan Stables as he walked towards the New Empire in his hometown of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, last summer.
Today Stables was told he posed a "very real threat to the public".
Officers had received a tip-off after white supremacist Stables posted a Facebook message saying he was "going to war" and that he planned to "slaughter every single one of the gay b******s".
He also filmed a video of himself setting fire to a gay pride flag, and posing next to a swastika.
Although he was unarmed when he was arrested on June 23, police found an axe, a machete and knives at his home, his trial heard.