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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Libby Brooks Scotland correspondent

Teenager who planned mosque attack in Scotland detained for 10 years

Glasgow high court building
The teenager was sentenced at the high court in Glasgow after pleading guilty to two terrorism charges, with a further eight years of supervision on licence upon release. Photograph: Andrew Milligan/PA

A teenager who listed Hitler, Mussolini and the Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik as his inspirations and who planned a terrorist attack on a mosque has been sentenced to 10 years in custody.

The 17-year-old, who cannot be named because of his age, had intended to set fire to an Islamic centre in Greenock, Inverclyde, after befriending the imam and mapping out the building’s interior on his phone.

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