Neo-Nazi, 16, found guilty in terror case

A TEENAGE neo-Nazi who listed targets “worth attacking” including schools, pubs and council buildings in Durham has been convicted of preparing to commit terrorist acts.

The 16-year-old – who described Adolf Hitler as “a brave man to say the least” – drafted his own manifesto which he called a manual “for practical and sensible guerrilla warfare” against the Jewish system in the Durham City area, and signed it: “Sieg

Heil”. The youngster, who cannot be named for legal reasons, also wrote of planning to conduct an arson spree with Molotov cocktails on local synagogues.

Handwritten documents were seized from his bedroom in March by police, who also found a collection of far-right literature, Manchester Crown Court heard.

The teenager, who was yesterday found guilty by a jury of preparation of terrorist acts between

October 2017 and this March, repeatedly searched for and visited websites related to “lone wolf” attacks including by Norwegian far-right terrorist Anders Breivik and Columbine High School shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold.

The youth was also unanimously found guilty of disseminating a terrorist publication, possessing an article for a purpose connected with terrorism and three counts of possessing a document or record containing information likely to be useful to a terrorist.

He will be sentenced on January 7. Prosecutor Michelle Nelson QC said the seized material had revealed the defendant had been a follower of a right-wing ideology since 2016.

Giving evidence, the defendant said he had few friends and claimed he adopted a fake rightwing persona for “shock value” to feel better about himself.