A youngster with neo-Nazi views who made plans to hold out a suicide bombing at a synagogue as a result of he needed “to make Jews afraid once more” has been jailed for eight years.
Mason Reynolds had carried out a “very vital quantity of planning” for a terrorist assault on the synagogue in Hove, East Sussex, the sentencing choose stated.
Reynolds, 19, who lived along with his mother and father in Brighton as he hatched the plan, admitted holding neo-Nazi beliefs however claimed he didn’t actually plan to hold out the bombing.
Sentencing him on Friday, Mrs Justice Could stated Reynolds had a “startlingly intensive and really regarding assortment” of terrorism paperwork and she or he thought of him harmful.
She instructed him he had “entrenched and targeted curiosity in far-right ideology and politics”, including: “One solely has to take a look at the amount and extremity in views expressed in materials proven to the courtroom to know the danger you pose.”
Describing a observe discovered during which he detailed how he would perform the bombing, she stated: “There’s a very vital quantity of planning a terrorism assault … There’s a critical threat of hurt.”
Throughout a trial at Winchester crown courtroom, the jury was instructed about detailed diagrams of the synagogue on his cellphone. He had written down occasions when the synagogue was busiest and marked an entrance, exit and the place of a safety digital camera.
The courtroom heard he additionally shared excessive rightwing movies and possessed manuals on bomb constructing and easy methods to 3D-print firearms.
He was the administrator of a Telegram channel that shared far-right, antisemitic and racist views. He posted that he needed to “make Jews afraid once more”.
Reynolds additionally possessed recorded live-streamed movies of mass-murder terrorist assaults together with these carried out by Brenton Tarrant in Christchurch, New Zealand, and Anders Breivik in Norway.
Reynolds was arrested in June 2023 and his cellphone and laptop computer have been seized.
Amy Packham, Reynold’s barrister, stated he was an immature younger man and argued: “The view of Mason Reynolds and his household is that he by no means would have taken this motion into actual life.”
Reynolds’ household gasped within the public gallery as he was sentenced.
In his police interview, Reynolds accepted writing the observe however stated he did it to “shut his pals up” as they have been at all times having a go at him for being “all discuss and no motion”.
Nick Value, the top of the Crown Prosecution Service counter-terrorism and particular crime division, stated: “Mason Reynolds sought to unfold hate and encourage acts of terrorism. He not solely held neo-Nazi beliefs however needed to behave on them to trigger ache and struggling.”
Reynolds was discovered responsible by a jury of possession of an article related with the preparation of an act of terrorism in opposition to the synagogue.
He pleaded responsible to 5 counts of possessing materials more likely to be helpful to an individual committing or making ready an act of terrorism, in addition to 5 offences of sharing terrorist publications.
Reynolds confirmed no emotion as he was given an prolonged sentence made up of eight years in custody with a five-year interval on licence.
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