Massacre obsessive, 19, bought gun on dark web
ATEENAGER obsessed with mass murderers has been jailed for 16 years after buying a gun and ammunition online.
Kyle Davies, 19, saw those behind the massacre at Columbine High School and Norwegian extremist Anders Breivik as his poster boys.
He used Bitcoin to purchase a Glock 17 handgun and five rounds of ammunition from an online gun dealer on the dark web, ordering it to his family home in Gloucester.
Homeland Security officers intercepted the order at Newark Airport in New York and tipped off local police, who arrested Davies.
Davies insisted he had purchased the gun and ammunition in order to
kill himself, but when officers searched his bedroom they discovered notes and a USB stick containing more than 1,000 pages relating to explosives and massacres.
A jury convicted him of attempting to possess a firearm with intent to endanger life and attempting to possess the ammunition with intent to endanger life following a trial at Gloucester Crown Court in July.
Judge Paul Cook jailed Davies, who appeared at Taunton Crown Court via video link, for 16 years and ordered that he serve an additional three years on licence.
Peter Binder, representing Davies, said his client had been diagnosed with autism and depression.
Davies was sentenced to a concurrent prison term of six months for two charges of making indecent images of children, relating to 250 images and two videos. He was also handed an eight-year term, also to run concurrently to his 16-year sentence, for evading the prohibition on the importation of firearms and ammunition.