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A former RAF cadet daubed a Windrush mural with Nazi symbols and fantasised about making a gun and killing a schoolboy, a court has heard.
The 17-year-old youth from South Wales admitted a string of terror offences and criminal damage and appeared at the Old Bailey on Friday.
The court heard how the youth was referred to the Prevent de-radicalisation programme last spring by the Royal Air Force Air Cadets.
Last September, he was expelled from the group after he sent images to other cadets bare chested with a Swastika painted on his chest and was banned from Instagram for posting racist and Nazi images.
The youth, then aged 16, went on to paint graffiti on a Windrush mural in Port Talbot, which celebrates the town’s Caribbean community, on two occasions in October and November.
On October 31st last year he was involved in setting off a smoke bomb at The Queer Emporium in Cardiff, which damaged the floor. The emporium was targeted because it is a centre for the local LGBT+ community, the court was told.
Prosecutor Lucy Jones outlined how the full extent of the defendant’s right-wing ideology was laid bare after he was arrested on November 8 last year.
In a search of his bedroom, police found a stash of knives, an air rifle and antisemitic literature.
A copy of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf had been bought for him by his mother and contained the defendant’s handwritten notes, Ms Jones said.
The defendant’s diary also outlined a desire for “race war”, the court was told.
Among the entries was a hate-filled rant about an Asian schoolmate who be believed “grassed” on him. He wrote: “I would be doing the world a favour if I just killed him.”
A list of life goals included “burn a building down, maybe bomb it”, “kill someone”, “join a Nazi militia”, “get a gun or make one” and “get buff as hell”.
The prosecutor said the defendant was not just a “keyboard warrior”, saying: “He’s carrying out his ideals not just in relation to the criminal damage but advocating in views in his social media. He’s not anonymous, he is willing to show his face and share and support his views.”
In June, the youth pleaded guilty to eight charges – two of possessing a terrorist document, three of distributing a terrorist document and three charges of criminal damage.
One of the terrorist documents the youth shared with another teenager gave details on bombmaking, derailing trains, attacking power lines and kidnapping police officers, as well as glorifying notorious mass murderers.
He possessed and disseminated another manual with “step-by-step” instructions on gun-making.
https://www.breakingnews.ie/world/f...windrush-mural-with-nazi-symbols-1522061.html
The 17-year-old youth from South Wales admitted a string of terror offences and criminal damage and appeared at the Old Bailey on Friday.
The court heard how the youth was referred to the Prevent de-radicalisation programme last spring by the Royal Air Force Air Cadets.
Last September, he was expelled from the group after he sent images to other cadets bare chested with a Swastika painted on his chest and was banned from Instagram for posting racist and Nazi images.
The youth, then aged 16, went on to paint graffiti on a Windrush mural in Port Talbot, which celebrates the town’s Caribbean community, on two occasions in October and November.
On October 31st last year he was involved in setting off a smoke bomb at The Queer Emporium in Cardiff, which damaged the floor. The emporium was targeted because it is a centre for the local LGBT+ community, the court was told.
Prosecutor Lucy Jones outlined how the full extent of the defendant’s right-wing ideology was laid bare after he was arrested on November 8 last year.
In a search of his bedroom, police found a stash of knives, an air rifle and antisemitic literature.
A copy of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf had been bought for him by his mother and contained the defendant’s handwritten notes, Ms Jones said.
The defendant’s diary also outlined a desire for “race war”, the court was told.
Among the entries was a hate-filled rant about an Asian schoolmate who be believed “grassed” on him. He wrote: “I would be doing the world a favour if I just killed him.”
A list of life goals included “burn a building down, maybe bomb it”, “kill someone”, “join a Nazi militia”, “get a gun or make one” and “get buff as hell”.
The prosecutor said the defendant was not just a “keyboard warrior”, saying: “He’s carrying out his ideals not just in relation to the criminal damage but advocating in views in his social media. He’s not anonymous, he is willing to show his face and share and support his views.”
In June, the youth pleaded guilty to eight charges – two of possessing a terrorist document, three of distributing a terrorist document and three charges of criminal damage.
One of the terrorist documents the youth shared with another teenager gave details on bombmaking, derailing trains, attacking power lines and kidnapping police officers, as well as glorifying notorious mass murderers.
He possessed and disseminated another manual with “step-by-step” instructions on gun-making.
https://www.breakingnews.ie/world/f...windrush-mural-with-nazi-symbols-1522061.html
