Thursday 2 June 2022 01:01 PM Loner, 19, who downloaded encrypted bomb-making manuals is jailed for 30 months ... trends now
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A teenage loner with an 'extreme right-wing mindset' who downloaded encrypted bomb-making manuals and attended a Tommy Robinson rally in a skull mask has been detained for 30 months on terror charges.
Mason Yates, 19, from Widnes, Cheshire, who described himself as a 'literal Nazi', accessed two documents from an electronic library shared among a chat group on the encrypted Telegram application.
Manchester Crown Court heard the two documents, 100 Deadly Skills and the White Resistance Manual, included instructions on how to prepare fireballs and explosive devices.
Mason Yates, 19, from Widnes, Cheshire, accessed two documents from an electronic library shared among a chat group on the encrypted Telegram application
Yates was a college student in his home town at the time the offences were committed between November 2020 and January last year.
Sentencing, Judge Alan Conrad QC told him: 'For some years you have held an extreme right-wing mindset expressing hatred towards a number of minorities, religious, ethnic and other groups.
'Posts by you have endorsed those who have committed atrocities in the name of such warped ideology.
'You were part of a group who exchanged such views. Those disturbing expressions of views were shared with others of like mind using an encrypted platform. It is a very dangerous thing to do. It serves to encourage others and it only needs one person to take it up
