A chilling ‘target list’ circulated on social media by far-right thugs includes the home of a 88-year-old grandmother with a collapsed lung, a £275,000 semi and a visa firm that has nothing to do with asylum seekers.
Details of the 39 locations – which include immigration centres, services and solicitors – were shared on a group with 13,000 followers on messaging app Telegram alongside instructions to target them for protests tonight.
Today business and individuals contacted by MailOnline said they had boarded up their premises and told staff to work from home, while police vowed they ‘are waiting’ to arrest anyone who turns up at any of the addresses intent on disorder.
The list appears to have been put together haphazardly with with little or no research. Many of the locations are on quiet residential streets, while one in Greater Manchester is opposite a hospice.
Another address is in Essex is a £275,000 semi-detached house that was previously used as the registered address of an immigration advisory company that has since been dissolved.
A granddaughter shared this family photo on X and said their grandmother’s home was on a list of addresses being targeted by far-right thugs
Details of the 39 locations – which include immigration centres, services and solicitors – were shared on a group with 13,000 followers
The granddaughter of the elderly lady whose home was featured on the list pleaded yesterday for yobs to stay away.
Tammy shared a family photo on X and added: ‘The far right fascist groups are now targeting immigration services across the UK. They have published my nana’s address as their Nottingham target on Wednesday.’
Tammy said her father is a freelance immigration advisor and that his business address is listed at her grandmother’s house in a quiet residential area of Nottingham.
Alongside another photo, the concerned relative said her grandmother had suffered a collapsed lung earlier this year.
She added: ‘I have no words to describe how it feels watching the hate unfold back home, let alone worrying about the safety of my family.’
Nottinghamshire police has confirmed the location is a ‘home address’ and urged people to stay away.
Another of the locations on the list is a visa services provider based in Sheffield.
The firm, which is located inside a terraced house opposite a church in a leafy area of the city, confirmed it had evacuated staff as a precaution while also boarding up the building.
A director at the company told MailOnline: ‘I’ve been making an awful lot of calls and messages. We’ve boarded up the windows and doors of the building and all staff are working from home and not going near the premises.
‘We’ve been in touch with police, who are going to be there. Initially we heard they won’t going to and we should have given them a call if anything has happened but that message has changed now, so fair play to them.
‘Our MP got in touch proactively and she helped with liaising with the police, so all credit to her. We also contacted the insurers, but they said they wouldn’t cover us because they said it would fall under their definition of terrorism – which isn’t covered by the policy.’
The director described the experience as ‘surreal’ – noting that his company did not even deal with cases of people seeking asylum.
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‘A lot of people have been getting in touch, mainly with messages of support,’ he said. ‘It’s all just completely surreal. We’re not there and the staff isn’t there, so there isn’t that immediate feeling of danger.
‘It doesn’t make any sense that we are on there. We’re a really tiny company based in a terraced house in Sheffield near the university and hospital. And we don’t even deal with asylum seekers and refugees – that’s not the kind of work we do.
One visa services company is based in a £52,000 semi-detached house in the Midlands.
An employee told MailOnline: ‘We have spoken to police and they are doing more patrols that normal. We have also moved from the address.’
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The Telegram group included locations in towns and cities across England, from Aldershot to Wigan, with organisers saying ‘they won’t stop coming until you tell them…’.
One message – posted to the group’s 15,000 members – said: ‘The n*****s will try to abuse the unrest to steal. It’s in their blood to do so.’
Another called for the death of Nick Lowles, the founder of anti-extremism charity Hope Not Hate. The horrific call-out said: ‘If anyone wants to go down in a blaze of glory, take this man with you.
‘Death to Nick Lowles. Any man who takes his life will be a hero to the cause.’ One extremely disturbing reply read: ‘How can I do it I’m game.’
Mr Lowles has responded to the threats, calling the man involved ‘serious and dangerous’.
And a further post told would-be rioters to wear masks, hoodies and leave their phones at home, underneath a photo of a young man in a balaclava and the tagline ‘white n radical’.
An assistant chief constable has urged people to ignore the list and said police will be waiting.
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Andy Mariner, of Essex Police, said there is ‘disinformation on social media’, adding: ‘Our message is clear – ignore it.’
‘If you’re planning on coming here intent on disorder, we will be waiting for you, and you will be arrested,’ he said.
‘There is information going around on the internet highlighting specific locations around the country and some of those details of locations are just plain false, including here in Essex.’
Approximately 6,000 specialist officers will be at the ready by the end of the week for the so-called ‘standing army’ of police announced by Sir Keir Starmer on Monday.
These officers have been taken away from their regular duties to deal with ongoing disorder.
The number of people arrested in the wake of violent disorder around the country now stands at 428, with around 120 charged, the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) said.
The numbers are ‘expected to rise significantly day by day’.
It comes as police warned suspects could be remanded in custody, even if they do not have any previous convictions, as a deterrent, and that those involved in violent disorder could face up to five years in jail.
Police chiefs will avoid releasing suspects on bail to get them behind bars and in court immediately.
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