‘Bomb plot boy called Jo Cox killer a hero’

A college student who celebrated the murder of MP Jo cox made a pipe bomb in preparation for an ‘all-out race war,’ a court heard yesterday.

The 17-year-old ‘dressed like a bank clerk’, but was said to be a neo-Nazi extremist who called Jo cox’s murderer a ‘hero’.

He made a ‘viable’ improvised explosive device using fireworks after googling ‘how to create a pipe bomb,’ leeds crown court heard. But police alerted to his Snapchat messages raided his bedroom, which was covered in Nazi memorabilia, and found the ‘bomb’ in a drawer.

one posted image was of a mosque being blown up, captioned: ‘It’s time to enact retribution upon the Muslim filth.’ The teenager, who cannot be named, denies preparing a terrorist act and an alternative charge of making a pipe bomb.

Prosecutor Barnaby Jameson told the jury the teenager became involved with National Action, a ‘small, secretive NeoNazi British youth nationalist organisation.’ last June, on the day that Mrs cox, pictured, was murdered by Thomas Mair in her West Yorkshire constituency, the teenager posted a picture of the killer on Facebook. His message read: ‘Tommy Mair is a HeRo. There’s one less race traitor in Britain thanks to this man.’

Mr Jameson said: ‘(The teenager’s) political views were so extreme that he celebrated in the murder of a democratically elected MP – presumably because she had voted to remain in the eU.’

The teenager told police: ‘I’ve simply been fooling around with fireworks and showing them off to my peers in my naivety – I have never had the intention to cause any harm to any person.’ The trial continues.