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LONDON — A redheaded British man, who fantasized about assassinating Prince Charles with a rifle so Prince Harry could become king, has been detained indefinitely under mental health laws.

Mark Colborne, who compared himself to Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik, was convicted of planning terrorism in September. Prosecutors said the 37-year-old wrote about his hatred for “non-Aryans” and about how he was “looking for major retribution, a mass terrorist attack.”

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They said he suffered from depression and felt marginalized as a white, red-haired man. British media called him a “ginger extremist.”