Chlo hughesBBC News, West Midlands
A self-proclaimed “Nazi” teenager has been detained for 18 months when a court heard that he had collected a hoard of weapons and discussed online whether his school had to “shoot”.
The 15-year-old, near the Market Dreton in Shropshire, who cannot be nominated for legal reasons, blamed a butterfly knife, a stun gun, a baton and crossbow without supervision in November.
He also accepted terrorist information in the third party manifesto.
On Friday, Judge Rebecca Towerer Casey told the boy that he was “clearly terrorist motivations, both racial and ideological”.
In addition to the 18 -month Custodial Term, he was also sentenced to 12 months on the license and a criminal behavior order (CBO) for three years.
The judge said, “There was a real risk that you would meet an attack and cause real losses, although I am not satisfied that the risk of loss is very likely.”
He told the defendant that he had taken into consideration his age, lack of previous beliefs, the fact that he was harassed and had a recent autism diagnosis, as well as a worry disorder.
He said that his autism and isolation could facilitate his retreat in the online world and his determination with violence and weapons.
However, he said: “This cannot be done in itself and cannot overcome his ideologies or other desires to kill other humans.
“Your disorders reduce your conviction, but to a limited extent.”
At the same time, a 12-month up rational order was also given to provide training and advice to his mother and father.
During the sentence hearing, prosecutor James Bruce said the teenager had developed interest in collective attacks including school firing.
He said that he expressed his desire to fulfill his own killings, and was a pile of deadly weapons.
At the time of the first visit to the police, in early November 2024, he was living in an annex of his parents’ property, and was described as a “unkump”.
At that time, the authorities seized six air weapons, a samurai sword, three crossbow and bolt, six knives and an unconscious gun.
It was also found that there was a strategic vest on which there were far-flung patches.
Cricket bomb
The video found on the teenager’s electronic devices saw about using a baton to shoot a crossbow in a coconut and crush a container on your desk while practicing footage and stils with samurai sword.
The defendant also tried to make a “cricket bomb”, but was not successful, the court listened.
Two days after the police raid, he “Can 50lb crossbow kill a human?”
Exactly three days later, the court heard, his mother bought her a crossbow “pistol” with a 50LB draw weight.
When the police returned after two weeks, the authorities confiscated new weapons.
When the interview was done, he told the police that he was interested in history and “black spirit of humor”.
He was released on bail on the condition that he had no unsafe internet access, and he did not buy any other weapon.
It agreed with the local authority that he would go back to his parents’ main house. He was also referred to for a daradicalization program and mental health services.
When the police returned to check the bail on 22 January, he was still living in annexe and a new internet device was purchased by his mother.
The court heard that the authorities shut down the device and found that it had logged into chats about Crossbow, Islamic State Group, Video and School Shooting.
He was sent to the Feltham Young Offenders Institution, where in March, the authorities found and seized a homemade weapon.
Further examination of his device was represented with a attraction with collective violence that came back in 2023, told to the court.
In a WhatsApp chat with a girl, the boy spoke of a desire to do a collective shoot and said he wanted to die in the end.
He said that he was telling voices to kill him, and he hoped that the shoot “stopped voices forever”.
He also said: “I want to kill so badly, I scare me by seeing the pathetic magots.”
The boy has written that April 20 – Adolf Hitler’s birthday – his “Death Day”, and said that he would “kill many people”, list three schools that he planned to attack – one of which was, two others on the Isle of White.
Mr. Bruce said that “Death Day” had passed without any incident.
The police also highlighted a video of a crossbow and the defendant who displayed the flag.
In the footage, he said: “embarrassed ‘IMA Nazi, see I have got my crossbow to kill the Jews, ha ha, I am a Nazi.”
The court heard that the defendant had marked its weapons with the names of notorious bombers and gunmen, as well as the word “Born to Kill” on the stock inside one of the crossbow.
Mr. Bruce said that it was carefully considered by the Crown whether the defendant had to charge with the preparation of terrorist acts, but it was decided that it would not be in public interest.
In mitigation, Dominic Thomas said that the defendant was “isolated” during the epidemic and was being harassed in school.
He also described them as “without thinking -unique and undivided”.
,[He] Effectively a very long dark darkness fell well, “he said.
‘Hypocrisy and fantasy
Mr. Thomas said that there was a “complete absence” of any behavior that revealed collective violence.
The court said, “There are identityable opportunities when he said that when he said that things would happen and nothing happened,” he told the court.
He said that the boy had said that he was doing drama.
The defense barrister said, “It was an expression, with pretense and fantasy, that he had some kind of reaction, that he had any kind of response, raised on it and its primary purpose and its primary purpose and its primary effect had to provide him with a certain degree,” said the defense barrister.
“There is no indication that he crossed the line, and he is always completely firm that he understands that line, and would never have crossed it.”
He told the court that the boy was quite autistic and insecure, and said that the boy’s actions were not preparations for violence, but “the expression of fantasy, a kind of self-care”.
Additional reporting by PA Media