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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Hannah Al-Othman North of England correspondent

UK teenager who killed herself after terror charges ‘was groomed by neo-Nazi’

Rhianan Rudd
Rhianan Rudd was at the time the youngest person in the UK to be charged with terror offences. Photograph: Family handout/PA

A teenager who killed herself after becoming the youngest person in the UK to be charged with terror offences had been groomed online by an American “neo-Nazi”, an inquest has been told.

Sixteen-year-old Rhianan Rudd, who was autistic, had been referred to the government’s Prevent counter-radicalisation programme by her mother, Emily Carter, the counsel to the inquest, Edward Pleeth, told the hearing.

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