A stash of weapons was found at the 15-year-old’s home, including crossbows, air weapons, a samurai sword and a stun gun A self-proclaimed “Nazi” teenager has been detained for 18 months after a court heard he had amassed a hoard of weapons and discussed online whether to “shoot up” his school. The 15-year-old, from near Market Drayton in Shropshire, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty to possessing a butterfly knife, a stun gun, a baton and crossbow without supervision in November. He also admitted having terrorist information in a third-party’s manifesto. On Friday, Judge Rebecca Trowler KC told the boy he “plainly had terrorist motivations, both racial and ideological”. In addition to the 18-month custodial term, he was also sentenced to 12 months on licence and given a Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO) for three years. “There was a real risk that you would carry out an attack and cause actual harm, however I am not satisfied that the risk of harm was very likely,” the judge said. She told the defendant that she had taken into account his age, lack of previous convictions, the fact that he was bullied and his recent autism diagnosis, as well as an anxiety disorder. She said his autism and isolation could have facilitated his retreat into the online world and his fixation with violence and weapons. However, she added: “It cannot in and of itself explain away your ideologies or your express desire to kill other human beings. (…) Videos found on the teenager’s electronic devices showed footage and stills of him practising with the samurai sword, shooting a crossbow at a coconut, and using a baton to crush a container on his desk. The defendant also tried to make “cricket bombs” but was not successful, the court heard. Two days after the police raid, he searched the internet for “can a 50lb crossbow kill a human?” Just three days later, the court heard, his mother bought him a crossbow “pistol” with a 50lb draw weight. (…) In a Whatsapp chat with a girl, the boy spoke of a desire to want to carry out a mass shooting and said that he wanted to die at the end. He said there were voices telling him to kill, and he hoped the shooting “stopped the voices forever”. He also said: “I wanna kill so badly, watching pathetic maggots die arouses me.” The boy wrote that 20 April – Adolf Hitler’s birthday – would be his “death day”, and said he would “kill lots of people”, listing three schools that he planned to attack – one of which was his, two others on the Isle of Wight. Mr Bruce noted that the “death day” had passed without incident. Police also uncovered a video of the defendant displaying a crossbow and flag. In the footage, he said: “Embarrassed ‘cus I’m a Nazi, look I’ve got my crossbow for killing Jews, ha ha, I’m a Nazi.” The court heard the defendant had marked his weapons with the names of infamous bombers and gunmen, as well as the words “born to kill” on the inside stock of one of the crossbows.
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