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(Jewish Group) UK neo-Nazi, 19, arrested for inciting terrorism against Jews
19-year-old UK citizen Thomas Leech, who has encouraged terrorism against Jews and Muslims, has been sentenced to two years in a young offender’s institution.
Leech posted a "call to arms" and glorified far-right killers such as Anders Breivik, who murdered 69 young people in a terrorist attack in Norway and Brenton Tarrant, who murdered 51 people at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2019.
Leech, a Preston native, pleaded guilty to inciting terrorism against Jews and Muslims and stirring up religious or racial hatred.
Rachel White, mitigating, said some offenses were committed when Leech was still a minor, aged only 17 or 18, and that he suffered from autism, agoraphobia and bullying, which kept him out of school.
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