A former Tesco worker accused of plotting a terror attack has denied making a "kill list" of colleagues and customers whom he branded "race traitors".
Alfie Coleman, from Great Notley in Essex, was arrested by counter-terrorism police in a Morrisons car park after he was caught buying a gun, the Old Bailey has heard.
The then-19-year-old was attempting to buy a Makarov pistol and ammunition in what turned out to be an MI5 sting.
In court on Thursday, prosecutor Nicholas de la Poer KC approached the topic of a list which Coleman had made of those who had "upset" him.
The jury heard how the list separated people seemingly into two categories: those he considered to be "undercover police officers" and others described as "race traitors".
Discussing the annotated list, De la Poer said: "A very large number of people are the subject of a racial slur by you or described as race traitors."
Coleman responded: "I cannot remember what was going through my head. I cannot say what I meant when I wrote those words down."
In reference to a colleague and her husband who were written on the list, the prosecutor said: "This is a white woman married to a person of non-white heritage and you have described her as a race traitor.
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|Alfie Coleman was arrested by counter terrorism police in a Morrisons car park after he was caught buying a gun
"This is someone who you worked with. Why did you describe her as a race traitor?"
However, Coleman said he was not able to remember.
De la Poer continued, asking: "Was that a list of people who you thought needed to be killed?"
Coleman replied: "No."
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The defendant said he understood the phrase "race traitor" to refer to someone who was friends or in a relationship with a non-white person.
He also said it referred to people working in the "system" against the interests of white people.
Pointing to the list, De La Poer asked: "Can we agree that none of the people you are describing as race traitors here fall into that category?
"They are not white people who are politicians who betrayed other white people because of their power... These are customers and colleagues at Tesco."
The defendant responded: "I do not know specifically. They may not all have been where I worked.
"I cannot say any more other than that."
Judge Richard Marks KC then asked Coleman to clarify his views, saying: "Regardless of colour, if you co-operate with authorities and work in the Government you are a race traitor - people working for the Government means doing something against white people?"
Coleman replied: "That's the way I understood it, yeah."
The defendant, now aged 21, has pleaded guilty to possessing 10 documents which contain information likely to be useful to terrorists and has accepted he had a large quantity of "extreme right-wing material".
Coleman has also admitted attempting to possess both a firearm and ammunition - but he denies he was preparing for a terrorist attack.
The trial continues.