Terrorist locked up over phone violation

BRITAIN’S youngest Islamist terrorist is back behind bars for breaking his release conditions after being jailed for plotting a beheading and massacre at the age of just 14.

The man, from Blackburn, who is now in his early 20s, was described as a “deeply committed extremist” who, aged 14, was days away from helping stage a “massacre” at an Anzac Day parade in Australia in April 2015.

Six months later, the man, identified only as RXG, was sentenced to life at Manchester Crown Court and told he would be eligible for parole only in October 2020 after serving a minimum of five years after admitting inciting terrorism overseas.

He was arrested last month and is back in custody at a jail in the north of England, sources have confirmed. RXG was found to be in possession of a smartphone, which broke the terms of his release on licence.

The nature of the material on his phone is not known but sources said the fact that he had the internet-enabled device meant he was held.

He had exchanged more than 3,000 messages from his phone instructing a jihadist in Australia, Sevdet Besim, to launch attacks at an Anzac Day remembrance parade in Melbourne. Australian police were alerted to the plot after British officers found material on the phone.

Anzac Day was the chosen for the attack as it is commemorated each year on April 25 to honour Australians and New Zealanders killed in war.

Besim, who was at the time 18 and from Melbourne, pleaded guilty to a single terror-related charge and was jailed for 10 years at the Victorian supreme court in 2016.

Media are banned from identifying RXG so as not to interfere with his rehabilitation.