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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-24T05:23:11.000Z",
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  "textContent": "\n\n\nA teenage boy has been convicted of terror offences after being radicalised online and encouraged by Russian extremists to to plot an attack on a synagogue.\n\nThe defendant, who was 15 at the time, was recruited via a Telegram bot that sent daily messages urging him to carry out an attack.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nProsecutors said the messages were sent by Russian speakers and may have been AI-generated.\n\nLeeds Crown Court heard police discovered a diary in which he wrote he wanted to attack because he was being bullied and felt hated by female pupils.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nTRENDING\n\nStories\n\nVideos\n\nYour Say\n\nThe boy, who lived in a remote cottage in Northumbria, told the court the bullying began in secondary school because he was taller than his peers and “more well-spoken than most people”.\n\nHe admitted joining racist Snapchat conversations and sharing “gore” videos depicting beheadings because they were “going around” and he wanted to “fit in”.\n\nWhen officers raided his home, they found bomb-making manuals, explosive chemicals, a crossbow and five knives.\n\nMilitary helmets, tactical vests, skull masks and a German camouflage jacket were also seized. His bedroom displayed white supremacist flags and a Nazi SS officer’s cap.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nMounted on the wall was an airsoft shotgun scrawled with far-right slogans in imitation of Christchurch killer Brenton Tarrant.\n\nMichelle Heeley KC, prosecuting, told jurors the teenager had “an arsenal worthy of any young right-wing terrorist”.\n\nShe said his diary and online messages were written by someone “filled with hate and racism” who was “building up to real-life action” and intended to livestream the attack using a GoPro camera.\n\nThe court heard he had put up recruitment posters reading “Save your race, join the Base” and volunteered to blow up a mobile phone mast using homemade explosives.\n\n### LATEST CRIME NEWS\n\n\n\n\n  * Benefits-claiming drug dealer ‘killed mother while high on cannabis’ in ‘vicious attack’\n  * Cold case of British girl who vanished half a century ago could FINALLY be solved\n  * Suspected rapist accidentally set free and leaves Britain before being put on trial\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nHe also researched the location of the Newcastle Reform Synagogue and became obsessed with mass killers who targeted schools and synagogues.\n\nOn New Year’s Eve he searched for homemade .22 ammunition and 3D-printed firearms.\n\nProsecutors said he escalated rapidly and was in contact with the Russian leader of The Base, a group proscribed in 2021.\n\nHe was arrested at his home shortly after 7.20am on February 20 last year while wearing his school uniform.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nThe jury unanimously convicted him of possession and dissemination of terrorist documents and membership of a proscribed organisation.\n\nThey were unable to reach a verdict on preparing acts of terrorism after he claimed he was “playing a character” and never intended to carry out the plans.\n\nHe will be sentenced next month.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n**Our Standards:The GB News Editorial Charter **",
  "title": "Teenager convicted of terror offences after being encouraged by Russian extremists to plot synagogue attack"
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