(BBC) An “obsessional” Muslim convert who downloaded videos on how to make a suicide vest has been jailed.
Liam Fenn, 21, repeatedly accessed an “enormous volume” of extremist material online, Manchester Crown Court heard.
He admitted eight counts of possessing a document likely to be useful to a terrorist and one count of recklessly encouraging terrorism.
Judge Patrick Field QC said Fenn had shown “poor judgement” because of his “obsessional behaviour.”
The court heard Fenn, of Wigan, Greater Manchester, had been referred to the government’s counter-terror programme Prevent following comments he made to a youth mentor at his sixth form in March 2017.
