A judge has decided against sending a 14-year-old boy—thought to be one of the youngest people in Britain to become a convicted terrorist—to prison, saying he was not “dangerous” in the legal sense.
The court heard he expressed racist and far-right opinions online, and hinted about carrying out a school shooting, as well as writing several suicide notes.
The boy, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, admitted three counts of possessing a terrorist publication, at a hearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court earlier this year.
On Friday the defendant appeared for sentencing before Britain’s Chief Magistrate, Senior District Judge Paul Goldspring, at Newton Aycliffe Youth Court in County Durham….