An international terrorist and paedophile who was caught in Dublin with firearms components and documentation in relation to the assembly of the weapons has been jailed for ten years.
Mark Wolf, 37, who is from the UK, is also wanted there to face terrorist and child abuse offences.
Wolf, who fled to Ireland in 2021, was also cited in an EU terrorism report as "a right-wing extremist sympathiser who had an interest in previous atrocities" and was also caught with Nazi paraphernalia.
He also went by the names Mark Peppard and Mark Nolan.
Wolf was living in a hostel in Gardiner Street, Dublin and tried to import firearms components from the United States.
Armed officers from the Special Detective Unit raided his room and seized four mobile phones, which were found to contain images of child abuse material.
These included Snapchat conversations between Wolf and two different teenage girls, one of which involved both Wolf and the girl engaging in separate sex acts over Snapchat, as well as other extreme child abuse material.
There were also images and videos on his phone of human suffering.
Gardaí also found a video of a live stream of the mass shooting on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand in March 2019 and texts sent to Wolf's phone referencing the killing of children on a regular basis.
Wolf accessed the dark web and accessed a site that contained a list of resources of child abuse material.
Gardaí also found various components to be used in the assembly or manufacture of semi-automatic weapons, including a buffer spring and buffer tube and documentation with instructions on how to put them together.
They recovered military goggles, tactical gloves, flick knives, an array of military tents and sleeping bags, as well as badges and a flag consistent with the Nazi regime and right-wing movements.
Detective Sergeant Gareth Kane told the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that it became apparent during the investigation that Wolf had been receiving packages to his hostel room in Dublin, mostly from Asia but also the Netherlands.
The items received were used in the construction of firearms and included silencers, triggers and trigger bars for semi-automatic pistols, a complete set of pins and ten magazine springs.
Wolf pleaded guilty to four charges of being in possession of the component parts of a firearm, a possession of electronic document in relation to the assembly of a firearm, three charges of importing component parts of a firearm into the State and three charges of knowingly being in possession of child pornography on dates in June 2021.
He had previous convictions from the UK, including assault, causing grievous bodily harm, firearm offences and battery.
His defence counsel said he left school at the age of 12, at the behest of his mother to assist her following her diagnosis of schizophrenia and that he had also been treated in a mental health day centre in London following a diagnosis of bipolar and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Judge Martin Nolan today sentenced him to ten years in prison.
