After being arrested Dale Rayner said he couldn’t remember making aggressive threats – and denied being racist as he had Muslim friends. Prosecutor Verity Barnes said Rayner told the handler that he was “walking the streets of Bradford armed with an axe, and he was ready to murder someone from the Islamic faith.”Throughout the 999 call, he hurled hostile racial slurs towards Muslims. He repeatedly said: “I’ve got this axe and I’m going to chop their f***ing heads off." Officers were then told where he had hidden the axe, which was in the garden of his home address nearby. He said supporting Rayner was in the public interest and told him: “I am giving you a real opportunity.