Group member faces years in prison

ONE member of the British Hand group, Matthew Cronjager, was found guilty at the Old Bailey last week of plotting a terror attack after the court heard he wanted to shoot an Asian friend over boasts that he slept with “white chicks”.

The 18-year-old neo-Nazi, from Ingatestone in Essex, tried to get hold of a 3D printed gun or a sawn-off shotgun to kill his teenage target.

Prosecutor Alistair Richardson said Cronjager is facing a jail sentence in “double figures” after being convicted of preparing for acts of terrorism and disseminating terrorist publications on Telegram, having previously admitted four charges of possessing terror documents.

The cases can be linked for the first time after reporting restrictions were lifted on Thursday by Chief Magistrate Paul Goldspring as he sentenced the 16-year-old from Derbyshire.