A teenager praised the Christchurch terrorist attacks and said he was a "believer" in Adolf Hitler.
Nicholas Street was only 16 when he created an "extreme right-wing" channel named "Tesco Waffen" on encrypted messaging platform Telegram. The now 20-year-old, of Stockbridge Street, in Everton, also downloaded guides with apparently innocent names such as "Pancake Recipe". But these actually turned out to be instructions for the production of explosives, deadly chemicals, automatic firearms and silencers.
Liverpool Crown Court was told this week his home was raided by counter terrorism police on December 2, 2019. Street, who was described as having a "deep-rooted mindset" and "terrorist connections or motivations", was found to have established the Telegram channel Tesco Waffen - an internet forum on which he and others with "the same mindset" shared a host of disturbing materials, including videos of the mass shootings in New Zealand.
