Anonymity removed for teenager who defaced Windrush mural with Nazi symbols
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Anonymity removed for teenager who defaced Windrush mural with Nazi symbols

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Mr Justice Jeremy Baker said Haynes “essentially became self-radicalised” and held “entrenched” racist, antisemitic and homophobic views. “It is of particular concern that not only had you asserted that one of your goals in life was to kill someone….but you had already carried out research as to the availability of one of the components for constructing a gun.” A court order granting him anonymity under Section 45 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 was lifted post-sentencing following an application from the press. A list of life goals included “burn a building down, maybe bomb it”, “kill someone”, “join a Nazi militia”, “get a gun or make one” and “get buff as hell”. He was given one year and seven months’ detention with one year’s extended licence for possessing terrorist documents, one year’s detention and one year on licence for disseminating terrorist publications and one year’s detention for aggravated criminal damage, all running concurrently.

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