Pavlo Lapshyn made the substance in his cell in the maximum-security prison in Wakefield. Ukrainian student who moved to Birmingham after winning a work placement contest stabbed an 82-year-old grandfather to death within five days of arriving in the UK. Pavlo Lapshyn landed in Britain on April 24 to further his studies and gain industry experience with a specialist Small Heath manufacturer. But far from furthering his career, Lapshyn set about to ‘increase racial conflict’ with a series of attacks in the West Midlands. A white supremacist serving a life sentence for a racist murder and bombing mosques has admitted making an explosive substance in his cell at a maximum-security jail. Chemical engineer Pavlo Lapshyn, 32, used salt, copper wire, pencil and other substances to form an ingredient which could be used to cause an explosion. When officers at the category A prison HMP Wakefield found a plate with a white substance on it in his cell in August 2018, he told them he was trying to make a firework. Lapshyn, a Ukrainian national, had just started a work placement in the UK when he murdered 82-year-old Mohammed Saleem in Small Heath, Birmingham, by randomly stabbing the grandfather in the back with a hunting knife in 2013. In the following months he planted bombs near mosques in the West Midlands, later stating his aim was to start a race war.
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