Zack Davies arriving at Mold Crown Court. He has been found guilty of attempting to kill Dr Sarandev Bhambra in a racially motivated attack

A white supremacist who said he was inspired by Jihadi John has been found guilty of trying to behead an Asian dentist with a machete and a hammer in front of shoppers in a Tesco store.

Zack Davies, 26, shouted 'White Power' and 'I did it for Lee Rigby' as he targeted his 24-year-old victim, Dr Sarandev Bhambra - the British-born son of a Sikh millionaire - at the supermarket in Mold, North Wales, on January 14.

Davies, from Mold, was said to have caused Dr Bhambra, a Liverpool University graduate, 'very severe' injuries to the left hand, his back and head which were described as life-changing.

The incident happened while the dentist was shopping at the store during his lunch break, Mold Crown Court heard.

Witnesses reported seeing a white man chasing an Asian man through the store with a knife and hammer.

Davies was only stopped when a member of the public, former serviceman Peter Fuller, stepped in.

He was said to have been obsessed with Nazi ideology, with various associated literature found in a later police search of his home.

Posters relating to the 2013 murder of Fusilier Rigby by two Islamic extremists were also discovered.

Giving evidence, unemployed Davies said he was 'fascinated' by Jihadi John, who he saw as an 'inspiration' and even had a mask of him.

The jury took just three hours and 40 minutes to decide he was guilty of attempted murder to cheers and applause from the pubic gallery. Davies showed no emotion as the verdict was read out.

He had admitted wounding with intent but denied attempted murder and he was sent to a high security hospital for psychiatric reports to be prepared before he is sentenced on September 11.

Judge Rhys Rowlands said: 'I hold the view he is an incredibly dangerous young man. If it is not going to be a hospital order it will be the longest possible sentence.

'Dr Bhamdra sustained the most dreadful life-changing injuries during a sustained racist attack on an innocent man, a member of a caring profession here in Mold carrying out work for the benefit of the community, who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.'

He also said many in the store and the emergency services had acted with courage that day but he singled out the actions of Mr Fuller for his 'quite astounding courage' and said he was considering how it should be best recognised.

Davies, pictured, was said to have been obsessed with Nazi ideology, with various associated literature found in a later police search of his home

He added: 'If it had not been for Peter Fuller there is every chance that Dr Bhandra would not be with us today, he would have been killed by this man. Mr Fuller’s courage is truly exceptional.

A knife, which was found by police belonging to Davies. Witnesses reported seeing a white man chasing an Asian man through the store with a knife and hammer

'It was a desperately sad and sorry case and the way Dr Bhandra coped and Mr Fuller behaved are just two rays of hope and light in an otherwise dreadful case.'

The jury heard how Davies would sit in his flat playing violent video games such as Call Of Duty on his XBox, sometimes for six or seven hours a day and watch online videos of ISIS beheadings.

Expelled from Mold Alun High School at 11 for taking a knife to school to attack a classmate, Davies became a loner and admitted carrying a knife with him every day since he was 15 because of his growing paranoia.

He harboured a hatred for his mother’s boyfriend who he blamed for having to leave his mother’s home and on January 14 he packed a machete, hammer and knife into his rucksack and went to attack Sion Williams, who worked at the town’s post office in Earl Road.

When he failed to find him he sat for while before making his way through town where he caught site of Dr Bhambra near the bus station.

Prosecutor Sion ap Mihangel said Davies then followed Dr Bhambra to Tesco where he put down his rucksack, took out the hammer and machete and attacked him from behind with a hammer blow to the head shouting 'white power' and 'remember Lee Rigby'.

Terrified shoppers told how Davies then pursued the bleeding Dr Bhambra who fell several times as he slashed his skull to the bone and gashed his back with the machete and cut the nerves and tendons to his left hand as he tried to defend himself.

The court heard Dr Bhambra, of Leeds, told police: ‘He would have hacked me to bits. I have no doubt in my mind that he was trying to kill me. I was singled out, I was attacked on the basis of my colour … I thought I was going to die.’

Davies was described as a racist with a fascination for Far Right ideologies after police found Nazi-linked literature at his home. He also described Jihadi John as an inspiration

During a search of his home, police found various right wing literature and Davies was also said to be fascinated by ISIS

His ordeal ended when ex-soldier Mr Fuller bravely stepped into the path of Davies and told him he was ex-forces and to stop, because he was not solving anything.

He said 'we are under attack' but Mr Fuller said what he was doing was madness and Dr Bhandra was not guilty of anything.

As he was handcuffed and taken away by police, Davies told the gathered crowd that he had done it for murdered guardsman Lee Rigby.

Mr ap Mihangel described Davies as a racist with a fascination for Far Right ideologies and read everything from Koran passages, stickers for neo-Nazi group Combat 18 to Hitler’s Mein Kampf. In interview he had told police that may be the 'wrong' side had won the Second World War.

The attack happened at a Tesco store in North Wales, where Dr Bhambra had been shopping on his lunch break

He even said he had considered at one point converting to Islam because he was tired of his new flatmates and their drug-taking.

Davies, who Mr ap Mihangel said was intelligent and 'well read in his field', added he was interested in both extreme left and right wing ideologies and had been fascinated by ISIS and its 'no compromise' philosophy.

BRAVERY OF EX-SOLDIER WHO STOPPED ATTACK The ‘astounding courage’ of ex-soldier Peter Fuller almost certainly saved Dr Bhambra’s life, a judge said. Mr Fuller told the court that he initially watched in shock as Davies rained ‘multiple’ blows on the victim. But as the dentist fled, Mr Fuller stood in Davies’s way and shouted: ‘Stop, this is madness. I am ex-forces.’ He said Davies told him ‘we are under attack’. But ‘the fact I said I was an ex-soldier, that I stood in his way, took the wind out of his sails,’ Mr Fuller added. He persuaded the attacker to place his weapons on the floor and kept him talking until police arrived. Judge Rowlands said: ‘If it had not been for Peter Fuller there is every chance that Dr Bhambra would not be with us … Mr Fuller’s courage is truly exceptional.’ The family of the victim said that they would be ‘forever grateful’ to the ex-soldier. Advertisement

He had taken a mask to wear during an attack on his mother’s boyfriend and was planning to shout 'God Is Great' is Arabic while he did it.

He admitted he had selected Dr Bhambra solely because of the colour of his skin and Asian appearance.

In court Davies apologised to the family of Lee Rigby for dragging his name into the case and also to Dr Bhambra who he agreed was simply an innocent victim.

Just before he had left his flat, Mr ap Mihangel said Davies had looked at a website on the Koran and beheadings. But a search of his computer history also found extreme violent websites such as ‘Best Gore’ and ‘All the Gore’.

Dr Bhambra’s brother, Dr Tarlochan Singh Bhambra made a statement outside Mold Crown Court following the guilty verdict against Davies.

He said: 'Sarandev was singled out because of the colour of his skin. We are in no doubt that had the racial disposition of this case been reversed this would be reported as an act of terror with a wider media coverage.

'We as a family have listened intently to the evidence and are in no doubt given the racial and political motivation that this should be rightly defined as an act of terrorism.

'By his own admission Zack Davies had extreme neo nazi views and is a member of a white supremacist organisation.

'Ethnic minorities have and continue to contribute positively to the multicultural Britain of 2015. Sikhs have sacrificed their lives in both world wars to facilitate the freedom that Britain enjoys today.'

After the verdict today, Dr Bhambra's brother Dr Tarlochan Bhambra made a statement on behalf of the family outside Mold Crown Court

Gareth Preston, senior crown prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service Wales, added: 'Zackery Davies is a dangerous young man whose distorted and racist views led him to commit a terrifying act of violence.

'This was an attack against a complete stranger, singled out for no other reason than his ethnicity.

'Such was the level of violence involved that were it not for the extremely courageous actions of ex-serviceman Peter Fuller, this offence could have become an act of murder.

'As it is, Davies's actions have left Dr Bhambra with life-changing injuries. We hope that today's conviction will be of some comfort to him as he seeks to move forward with his life.'