Gun rampage plot of teen obsessed with mass killer Breivik
A TEENAGER tried to buy a gun so he could carry out an atrocity like the notorious mass murderers he idolised.
Kyle Davies, 19, revered the Norwegian far-Right killer Anders Breivik and saw the Columbine High School gunmen as ‘poster boys’.
He used the cryptocurrency Bitcoin to buy a Glock 17 handgun and five rounds of ammunition from an arms dealer on the so-called dark web. The teenager ordered the weapon to arrive at his family home in Gloucester.
But US Homeland Security officers intercepted the order at Newark Airport in New Jersey and tipped off British police, who delivered a dummy package to Davies’ home before arresting him. The teenager insisted he had bought the gun and ammunition in order to kill himself and denied he was planning a mass shooting.
But when officers searched his bedroom in June last year, they discovered handwritten notes and a USB stick containing more than 1,000 pages relating to explosives and massacres.
Yesterday a jury unanimously convicted him of attempting to possess a firearm and ammunition with intent to endanger life following a two-week trial at Chilling inspiration: Kyle Davies idolised Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik, left Gloucester Crown Court. Judge in 2011. The court heard Davies found no evidence of a specific Paul Cook warned Davies he had spent more than £1,000 target. Detective Inspector faced a ‘significant period of to buy the gun and ammunition, Kevin Till, of the South West imprisonment’. He will be sentenced which were all tested and Regional Organised Crime at a later date. found to be viable. Unit, said: ‘ The depth of
Trial jurors heard how Davies, After his arrest at home, he research Davies had carried who was studying for his A-levels told firearms officers: ‘You out and the extent of his planning at the time, had a ‘deep and should have just shot me. I under what he himself persistent’ interest in mass murders. haven’t technically possessed termed “Phase One” leaves us On the USB drive found anything anyway.’ Anna Vigars in no doubt he was intending after his arrest was a vast quantity to follow in the footsteps of the of material relating to the murderers he idolised. Columbine High School shootings ‘The intervention by Homeland and to Breivik. Security at Newark Airport
A shopping list entitled ‘Phase undoubtedly led us to a One’ detailed the costs of items very dangerous individual. A including a gas mask, trench meticulous investigation, coat, body armour and a leg pistol closely supported by forensic holder. Davies had scrawled experts and the Crown Prosecution ‘Hello Mr Policeman’ on one Service, has clearly page of writing. shown his intent to harm others
On another he drew 77 ‘stick and, ultimately, ensured he people’ to represent the victims never had the opportunity to of Breivik’s massacre in Norway move on to “Phase Two”.’
‘Deep interest in mass murders’
QC, prosecuting, told the jury: ‘He wasn’t preparing for suicide. He was perhaps expecting to die at the end of his own lethal killing spree and take as many others as possible out with him on the way.’ Detectives who quizzed the teenager