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| Durham neo-Nazi teenager detained for terror attack plan | |
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| The youngest person to be convicted of planning a terror attack in the UK has been detained for more than six years. | |
| The now 17-year-old wrote about an "inevitable race war" in his diary and listed locations from his home city of Durham in a "guerrilla warfare" manual. | The now 17-year-old wrote about an "inevitable race war" in his diary and listed locations from his home city of Durham in a "guerrilla warfare" manual. |
| A jury had found the boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, guilty of preparation of terrorist acts between October 2017 and March 2018. | A jury had found the boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, guilty of preparation of terrorist acts between October 2017 and March 2018. |
| He was sentenced to six years and eight months at Manchester Crown Court. | He was sentenced to six years and eight months at Manchester Crown Court. |
| Judge David Stockdale QC told the boy: "These are offences of the utmost seriousness." | |
| 'Natural sadist' | |
| He also ordered the detention be followed by an extension period on licence of five years. | |
| The six-week trial heard he was an adherent of "occult neo-Nazism", and described himself as a "natural sadist". | |
| His attack preparations included researching explosives and trying to obtain the obtain the dangerous chemical ammonium nitrate. | |
| He also wrote of planning to conduct an arson spree targeting synagogues in the Durham area using Molotov cocktails. | |
| Addressing the defendant, the judge described him as a widely-read "young man of high intellect", adding this made it a matter of "infinite regret" that he had persisted on "such a twisted and - many would say sick - ideological path". | |
| He said the evidence in the trial "tells its own macabre story", and while his young age was a powerful mitigating factor, it was also a "most disturbing" aspect of the case. | |
| "You suffer from an autistic spectrum disorder", he told him, saying it was common ground between experts. | |
| The judge also said the teenager had written him a letter expressing "remorse". |