Teenager detained after plotting Southport-style attack on Oasis concert
A teenager planned to attack an Oasis concert and a dance school after being inspired by Southport killer Axel Rudakubana.
McKenzie Morgan, 18, has been jailed for 14 months after admitting to possessing a document useful for terrorism.
The teenager, from Cwmbran, South Wales, told friends he planned to target the concert in Cardiff on July 4, and had a note targeting the dance club near his home, the Old Bailey heard.
He also praised Southport attacker Axel Rudakubana in Snapchat messages, saying he wanted to engage in a similar terrorist-style attack and was trying to make the deadly poison ricin last spring.
One Snapchat user reported the messages to the police, and Morgan was referred to children’s mental health services.
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He then told a psychiatric nurse on June 2 that he wanted to hurt others, and he planned to commit a Rudakubana-style terrorist attack.
Officers arrested him and seized his electronic devices and mobile phones, on which the terrorist manual was found.
Further examination revealed that last April, Morgan had sent a message asking ‘how to burn people’s faces’.
He had stated: ‘In my head I now have the motivation to go ahead with some sort of attack.’
He also sent a picture of a 15cm kitchen knife advertised on Amazon to another Snapchat user with the question: ‘Would this work?’
In a police interview, Morgan admitted having read the terror manual and said he had sent Snapchat messages because he was “bored”.
He denied trying to make ricin or intending to attack his school, the dance academy or the Oasis concert and he only meant “to shock”.
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