(Press Release) A 17-year-old is due to appear in court charged with terrorism offences as part of a Met investigation into the sharing of extremist material online.
The boy from north London, who cannot be named because of his age, was charged on Thursday, 8 February, with the following offences:
- Two counts of dissemination of terrorist publications (contrary to section 2 of the Terrorism Act 2006);
- Invited another to provide money for use in acts of terrorism (contrary to section 15 of the Terrorism Act 2000);
- Possessing a document likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism (contrary to section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000).
