Mercy Muroki has spoken to Sky News correspondent Alice Porter after Nazi-obsessed Callum Parslow was jailed for life for repeatedly stabbing Nahom Hagos in a Worcestershire hotel on 2 April 2024.
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Ms Muroki, a former GB News presenter, had earlier reported Parslow to police after he began sending her sexually graphic and racist videos on Instagram in the summer of 2023.
However, the 30-year-old mum says the force dismissed him as a “loner” and a “loser” who posed no physical threat to her because he did not have a car.
Police have not yet responded to these allegations.
West Mercia Police have previously said that Parslow’s bail conditions were appropriate to the nature of offences.
Parslow, now 32, was arrested by West Mercia Police and later charged in relation to the offences against Ms Muroki.
He went on to try and murder Mr Hagos after he had been released on bail.
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During a search of his flat in Worcester, officers found Nazi memorabilia and a far-right manifesto.
In her interview with Sky News after Parslow was jailed on Friday, Ms Muroki said: “I understand, I suppose in law, the things that he was doing and the messages he was sending didn’t qualify as serious enough for him to sort of remain in custody whilst they were investigating the case.”
However, Ms Muroki added: “I could see he was clearly a dangerous individual based on the things that he was saying.
“And on his Twitter as well, there was all manner of just crazy, far-right conspiracy theories.”
She continued: “I think if it was. Islamic terrorism, for example, the police probably would have taken it more seriously.”
Ms Muroki has said when Parslow first began contacting her he would send videos of a “very kind of graphic sexual nature”.
She added: “It escalated to him responding to videos I’d uploaded with my daughter and just saying really horrific things such as, you know, ‘no self-respecting white paedo would sexually assault your daughter’.
“It was bizarre because on one hand it was messages of a sexual nature that he seemed to have some kind of weird sexual fixation on me. And then it would switch to really kind of hateful, racist messages.”
Ms Muroki says that when she blocked him on Instagram he began messaging her on Twitter, now known as X, instead.
When she blocked him on that platform he started messaging her on Facebook.
Ms Muroki decided to report Parslow to police when he started sending her videos showing him pleasuring himself to pictures of her.
He would also send her videos describing sexual fantasies that he had.
Ms Muroki said: “That’s when I decided this person is clearly not just a keyboard warrior. I realised that his behaviour and his messages were escalating. And that’s when I decided to report it to the police.”
She says the force initially “acted quite quickly” and she was assigned an officer who “did take it quite seriously”.
However, she says over time she felt her concerns that his behaviour could escalate were not being taken seriously enough.
