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Sophie Robinson

Groomed terror suspect not treated as a ‘vulnerable child’, says her mother

Emily Carter, Rhianan Rudd’s mother (Sophie Robinson/PA) - (PA Wire)

The mother of an autistic teenager who was groomed and “brainwashed” by right-wing extremists says she was not treated as a vulnerable child before she took her own life.

Rhianan Rudd, who died aged 16, had an “obsession with Hitler”, downloaded a bomb-making manual, and threatened to “blow up” a synagogue after she was radicalised online by an American neo-Nazi.

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