Durham neo-Nazi teenager convicted of planning terror attack

A teenage neo-Nazi who wrote about an “inevitable race war” in his diary and identified a series of possible targets has been convicted of preparing terrorist acts.

The 16-year-old from Durham listed the locations in his “guerrilla warfare” manual, Manchester Crown Court heard.

He was convicted of six terror offences and will be sentenced on 7 January.

The boy is the youngest person to be convicted of planning a terrorist attack in the UK.

• Teen neo-Nazi became ‘living dead’

Jurors heard the boy, who described himself as a “natural sadist”, began drafting a “manual for practical sensible guerrilla warfare against the kike [offensive term for Jewish] system in Durham City area”.

The manual listed “means of attack” and “areas to attack”, which listed local venues “worth attacking” such as post offices, pubs and schools.

A “things to do” list from August 2018 included the words “shed empathy” alongside a hand-drawn symbol of the Order of Nine Angles, which the court heard was a “self-consciously, explicitly malevolent” Satanic organisation.

The jury found the boy guilty of preparation of terrorist acts between October 2017 and March this year.