A teenager collected manuals on how to make homemade grenades and cyanide and set up an online extremist group called "Tesco Waffen".
Nicholas Street was aged only 16 when he created the "extreme right wing" channel on encrypted messaging platform Telegram and downloaded guides with apparently innocent names such as "Pancake Recipe", but which were in fact instructions for the production of explosives, deadly chemicals, automatic firearms and silencers. The now 20-year-old - of Stockbridge Street in Everton - also praised the murderous actions of Brenton Tarrant, who carried out the Christchurch terrorist attacks.
Liverpool Crown Court was told today, Tuesday, that 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.
