Hull man Mikka Anderson’s trial is scheduled to last eight days
The Royal Hotel off Ferensway, Hull(Image: Donna Clifford / Hull Live)
A 24-year-old alleged white supremacist plotted to petrol bomb a Hull hotel used to house migrants and kill as many occupants as possible, a court has heard. Mikka Anderson, who worked for a kitchen manufacturer, tried to recruit an accomplice to attack the Royal Hotel in February, Newcastle Crown Court was told.
The defendant, from Hull, denies preparing an act of terrorism including by manufacturing Molotov cocktails and by conducting “hostile reconnaissance” on the hotel. He also denies possessing knives and other weapons for terrorist purposes.
Adam Birkby, prosecuting, told jurors how Anderson met a man, who cannot be identified in the media for legal reasons, in Hull city centre and outlined “his plan to attack the Royal Hotel by the city’s railway station, and to kill as many of the migrants who were housed inside it as possible”. The plot was to use petrol bombs to set the building on fire, the court heard.
But the would-be recruit was so concerned that instead of agreeing to join in, he went to a police station and reported the deadly plan, the prosecution said. Anderson was arrested and police found knives, a crossbow, and petrol bombs during a search of his home.
Officers examined his phone and found his plans for “terrorist violence” were motivated by extreme right-wing ideology, Mr Birkby said. Anderson denies being a terrorist, Mr Birkby said, and it was understood he will say that the discussion with the other man about attacking the hotel was “purely hypothetical” and in any event, it was the other man who tried to recruit him.
The defendant will say that the cache of weapons were not for terrorist purposes and they were in fact linked to his interest in survivalism and “doomsday prepping”, the Crown said. Mr Birkby said Anderson lived an apparently everyday life with a job and a partner but “behind this veil of normality” he was “immersed” in “extreme right-wing ideology”.
He was an ardent believer in white nationalism and that white people were the superior race, Mr Birkby said. Anderson frequently used racist terminology and language when referring to people of other races and religions, the court heard.
He believed in an antisemitic conspiracy theory, the Great Replacement, jurors were told, which states that politicians and global elites plotted to swap the white population with non-white immigrants. Mr Birkby said Anderson told a friend last November how the Government was building an army of “cultist, fanatic, inbred lunatics” and added: “There’s rumours the government have been shipping guns into Scotland and the weapons are being transferred and stored in mosques.”
The prosecution said Anderson admired Hitler and referred to himself as a Nazi. Mr Birkby said Anderson told an associate in September 2025: “I am stocking up and preparing for violence… Muslims aren’t here to assimilate they’re here to take over.
“They’re a literal bioweapon. One day they will turn this country into a warzone.”
The trial, scheduled to last eight days, continues.
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