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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Harry Cockburn

Police charge 14-year-old boy over alleged terror plot targeting London mosques

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Police said the boy had been charged with an offence linked to ‘extreme rightwing terrorism’. Photograph: Jill Mead/The Guardian

A 14-year-old boy from south London has been charged with an offence linked to “extreme rightwing terrorism” after a police search uncovered an alleged plot to target two mosques.

The boy was arrested on 9 July on suspicion of criminal damage to a vehicle, but officers dispatched to his address found “a number of documents of concern” during a search, according to the Metropolitan police.

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