A boy spoke about blowing up an orphanage online and made remarks described as "abhorrent" by a district judge. The teenager shared extreme right-wing views online, talked about carrying out a school shooting and wrote a number of suicide notes, the court heard.
The boy, from Darlington and who is now aged 14, had previously admitted to three charges of possessing a terrorist publication at a hearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court in January.
Teesside Live reports that he was just 13 when he downloaded the Anarchist's Cookbook, about how to make plastic explosives and a document about Middle Eastern bomb designs.
The boy has now been spared jail and given a 12-month "high intensity" referral order and is one of the youngest people to be convicted of terror offences in the UK.
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