He was referred again in May 2025, after he was heard speaking about Southport as well as the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing. <\/p>\n
That referral was still being assessed at the time of his arrest. <\/p>\n
In TikTok messages to a friend, he gloated about his second referral making him a “true Axelcel” and said he hoped his case would be closed again “like Axel Rudakubana” because he had “no clear ideology”. <\/p>\n
He also said: “I hope every single non special-needs life is destroyed. Whether by rape murder torture [I don’t care] I’ll enjoy slaughtering you all.”<\/p>\n
But there were also signs the boy was troubled by his own obsessions. <\/p>\n
At the same time he was researching how to carry out mass killings, he also made searches including “what should I do if I want to kill people” and “UK hotline for thoughts about killing others”. <\/p>\n
According to sentencing judge Neil Flewitt KC, the 999 call was made “so that the police could stop you”. <\/p>\n
Judge Flewitt stopped short of sending the boy into custody, telling the court the public would be better protected by intense supervision and support from youth offending services.<\/p>\n
He was sentenced to a three-year youth rehabilitation order. <\/p>\n
Speaking after the sentencing hearing, Bethan David, head of the Crown Prosecution Service’s Counter Terrorism Division, said: “This was a deeply concerning case involving a young person who had been drawn towards extreme and violent ideology, with the potential for very serious harm.”<\/p>\n
She said the boy’s young age “could not excuse” his conduct. <\/p>\n
“This case underlines the real world consequences of online radicalisation and the importance of early intervention,” she said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He was referred again in May 2025, after he was heard speaking about Southport as well as the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-462350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}