A neo-Nazi student who was jailed for a minimum of 40 years for murdering an 82-year-old man and plotting explosions near mosques has died in a high-security jail.

Pavlo Lapshyn, 37, stabbed Mohammed Saleem in Birmingham in April 2013 — five days after arriving in the UK.

Lapshyn later planted three home-made bombs near mosques in the West Midlands in planned racist attacks.

He died today at HMP Wakefield, the Category A jail in West Yorkshire, the Prison Service has confirmed.

A local in the West Midlands told Metro: ‘He absolutely spread fear through the community. And obviously we had to contain it, because what you didn’t want is, what he wanted — to start a race war.

‘I think maybe he was doing little testers at the little mosque, because the last one that he did was in a mosque

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