UK’s youngest convicted terrorist is spared prison
A NEO-Nazi teenage terrorist avoided a custodial sentence yesterday.
The 16-year-old boy, who led a cell from his grandmother’s house in southeast Cornwall, was told he had ‘entered an online world of wicked prejudice and violent bigotry’, as he was sentenced to a two-year rehabilitation order by Judge Mark Dennis QC at the Old Bailey.
Warning he faced jail if he continued, the judge told Britain’s youngest convicted terrorist to ‘re-direct’ his future. From the age of 13, the boy collected far-right material, including bombmaking, and helped lead the now banned FKD – Feuerkrieg Division.
He recruited Paul Dunleavy, 17, from Rugby, Warwickshire, who was jailed for five-and-a-half years in November for preparing acts of terror.
The boy, who admitted 12 terrorrelated offences between October 2018 and July 2019, held his grandmother’s hand as he was sentenced by videolink from Bodmin magistrates’ court.
NIRVANA made no secret of their admiration for Abba... but Dave Grohl admitted he was afraid when the grunge rockers shared festival billing with the tribute act Bjorn Again.
Having promoted themselves in the early days as ‘a mix between the Sex Pistols and Abba’, Nirvana were thrilled to meet the Aussie foursome Bjorn Again in Sydney. And when they headlined the Reading Festival in 1992, Bjorn Again were their warm-up act.
Grohl, 52, admitted to Chris Evans on his How To Wow podcast that he feared the Abba lookalikes would be ‘bottled off stage’.
But he added: ‘Every one of those kids in their goatees and Doc Martens sang every word to every Abba song. Who doesn’t love Abba? They even had the guts to play Smells Like Teen Spirit before we did!’