Far-right obsessed teenager filmed himself spraying liquid over girls, court heard
A far-right obsessed teenager filmed himself spraying liquid over girls and edited the videos using swastikas, a court heard.
The boy, now fifteen but fourteen at the time, pleaded guilty to three charges of battery, possessing a bomb-making manual, and dissemination of a terrorist publication on the basis of recklessness.
The boy, from the south-west London area of Isleworth, was said to have worn a blue surgical mask as he approached two girls in a park before spraying them with a liquid in May 2022. In another incident, the boy sprayed a girl who was then taken to hospital by passersby.
The boy filmed the incidents and later edited in swastikas, Russian commentary and death metal.
The Old Bailey heard that the officers who checked the boy’s phone and computer found large amounts of far-right extremist material. The boy also reportedly wrote about wanting a race war and wanting only white people remaining. He had also collected parts needed for a BB gun, Nazi fridge magnets and badges, and a rubber gas mask.
He was said to have used an online alias that referenced 1488, a coded reference to the neo-Nazi fourteen-word oath: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children”, a slogan initially devised by David Lane, a member of the white supremacist terrorist group “The Order” which was responsible for the murder of Jewish radio host Alan Berg. The number 88 refers to the eighth letter of the alphabet, H, and is intended as a code for “Heil Hitler.”
The court heard how the boy expressed a deep hatred for non-white races and members of the LGBTQ+ community. In an unsent Telegram message, he said that he would “prefer to live in a white society” and that he identified with the ideology of National Socialism.
Mr Justice Jeremy Baker, sentencing, handed the boy, who is now taking medication for paranoid schizophrenia, a three-year youth rehabilitation order. He has been ordered to carry out 180 hours of an extended activity requirement as part of the sentence, and a curfew will be placed on him from 21:00 to 18:00, as well as curbs on his use of the internet.
