Student who plotted terror campaign gets 13 years

A student been jailed for 13 years for preparing acts of terrorism by compiling and sharing a bomb-making manual, after declaring he wanted to kill at least 50 people.
Jacob Graham, 20, dedicated his manual, called the "Freedom Encyclopaedia", to "misfits, social nobodies, anarchists, terrorists past and future, who want to fight for freedom against the government".
The security services uncovered Graham's activity as part of an investigation into the purchase of chemicals online.
When they raided the home he shared with his mother and sister in Norris Green, Liverpool, they discovered he had filmed bomb-making experiments in his back garden and buried supplies in a secret woodland hide in Formby, Merseyside.
In a document called "My Plan", Graham wrote he wanted to kill at least 50 people by attacking government buildings and politicians' houses.
He also made 138 videos, to be released on the day of an attack, in which he demonstrated explosives and talked about "Judgement Day" and "standing up for working-class people".
On a wall in his bedroom, Graham had printed out a picture of a car bomb exploding with the words: "Make politicians afraid to start their cars again."
Graham, a computer science student, used the name "Destro the Destroyer" and communicated with like-minded extremists using a gaming platform called Discord.
On another platform called Telegram, he exchanged messages with others who shared his hatred of government in groups called Earth Militia, Total Earth Liberation and Neo Luddite Action.
Sentencing him to 13 years in a young offenders institution, with five years on extended licence, the judge, Mr Justice Goose, said those who knew Graham believed he was an "ordinary young man" with an interest in fireworks, the military and outdoor pursuits.
"In reality, however, you are a dangerous young man, you described yourself as the first UK home-grown terrorist," the judge added.
The judge's sentencing remarks can be read in full at: www.judiciary.uk/judgments/r-...
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