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Teenager who plotted to attack synagogues convicted of six terror offences

'The extreme right wing views and hateful rhetoric displayed by this teenager are deeply concerning'

November 20, 2019 18:29
The boy's manifesto
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A teenager who plotted to attack synagogues as part of a "race war" has been convicted of six terror offences.

The 16-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, searched online for shuls in the Durham area to target and wrote a manifesto, inspired by the one written by far-right Norwegian terrorist Anders Brevik.

Its title was "Storm 88: A manual for practical sensible guerrilla warfare against the kike system in Durham city area, sieg hiel".

“Once we get study leave, those glorious 12 weeks of freedom, it’s showtime,” he wrote in January. When he was arrested in March, he was carrying a piece of paper that said: "Killing is probably easier than your paranoid mind thinks. You’re just not used to it … good hunting Friday.”