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Poppy Kennedy & Chloe Burrell

Teenage boy, 14, one of UK's youngest convicted of terror offences after researching how to make bombs

A boy spoke about blowing up an orphanage online and made remarks described as "abhorrent" by a district judge.

The teenager shared extreme right-wing views online, talked about carrying out a school shooting and wrote a number of suicide notes, the court heard.

The boy, from Darlington and who is now aged 14, had previously admitted to three charges of possessing a terrorist publication at a hearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court in January.

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