Overview

• Judge Rebecca Trowler KC sentenced the 15-year-old at the Old Bailey to 18 months in custody followed by a year on licence, with his identity withheld by law.
• Sentencing remarks said his conduct showed racist, ideological terrorist motivation and a real, though not very likely, risk of harm given his isolation and dependence on others.
• Police seized a cache including multiple crossbows, air weapons, a Samurai sword, knives, and a stun gun in a tactical vest bearing far-right symbols; he admitted the possession counts.
• Evidence showed he consumed extremist manifestos and violent videos, messaged about mass killings and named April 20 as a planned ‘death day’, and sought bomb and weapon-making guidance.
• He breached bail by obtaining a new internet device as his mother bought him another crossbow, was remanded to Feltham YOI where a homemade weapon was found, and later received a three-year criminal behaviour order plus a 12-month parenting order for his parents.