A 15-year-old boy, touted as Britain's youngest terrorist, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday 2nd October 2015, with a minimum of five years. It was revealed that the teenager had alerted other extremists regarding the police inquiry after his arrest.
It is alleged that the teenager unashamedly bragged about being detained, on the streets of Blackburn. Manchester Crown Court was told that he also warned the other people with whom he had been in contact with to delete all evidence of their connection from him from their mobile phones.
The 15-year-old boy was sentenced for plotting a beheading in Australia. The court was also informed that the boy, who was 14 years old when he had urged a suspected jihadist to kill police officers in Australia; the court heard how he was “deeply committed radical extremist”.
It is said that the boy had admitted encouraging terrorism when the police had found over 3,000 encrypted messages between him and Sevdet Besim (18), from Australia.
Mr Justice Saunders stated that the life term for the teenager meant that he would not be released from prison until he was considered not dangerous.
