Cornish schoolboy ‘hoarded terrorist material’

A ‘complex’ schoolboy started collecting terrorist material when he was just 13, a court heard. The 15-year-old, who lives in a cottage with his grandmother in Cornwall, faces 10 charges of possessing documents useful for terrorism and one of distributing a terrorist publication. The alleged offences date from July 2018 – when he was 13 – to July last year. His lawyer Tracey Baker told Westminster Magistrates’ Court: ‘He lives with his grandmother. They have been isolating throughout the lockdown…

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