A teenage neo-Nazi terrorist who identified possible targets in his home city has been locked up for six years and eight months.
The 17-year-old boy drafted his own manifesto which listed ‘Areas to Attack’ in Durham such as schools, pubs and council buildings.
He also wrote of planning to conduct an arson spree with Molotov cocktails on local synagogues.
Various handwritten documents were seized from his bedroom in March by police who also found a collection of far-right literature, Manchester Crown Court heard.
Analysis of his computer devices and mobile phone uncovered numerous internet searches on firearms, explosives and knives.
In November, jurors found him guilty of preparation of terrorist acts between October 2017 and March last year.
The youth was also unanimously found guilty of disseminating a terrorist publication, possessing an article for a purpose connected with terrorism and three counts of possessing a document or record containing information likely to be useful to a terrorist.
The defendant said he had no intention of carrying out any attacks and claimed he adopted a fake right-wing persona for “shock value”.
In the month before his arrest in March the defendant repeatedly searched for and visited websites related to "lone wolf" attacks by the likes of Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh, the Norwegian far-right terrorist Anders Breivik and Columbine High School shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold.
He had also purchased the manifestos of Breivik and another terrorist, Ted Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber.
In journal entries the youth wrote of his admiration for Adolf Hitler - "a brave man to say the least", Moors murderer Ian Brady - "how wonderful it is to be an amoral individual" and murderous cult leader Charles Manson.
In August 2018 he wrote a things-to-do list, which included the instruction "shed empathy" and referenced a shooting at a video gaming tournament in Jacksonville, Florida, where two people were killed.
Alongside the list was a quote from Manson: "When I stand on the mountain and say do it, it gets done. If it don't get done then I'll move on it and that's the last thing in the world you want me to do."
The youth also wrote of his dislike of school, spoke disparagingly of Durham having a Jewish MP and described the North East as a "s***hole", stating "the people are loathable, the sights forgettable and the police laughable".
Opening the case, prosecutor Michelle Nelson QC said the seized material had revealed the defendant had been a follower of a right-wing ideology since 2016.
By late 2017 his views hardened as he became an adherent of neo-Nazism, she said.
In October 2018 he wrote "in journal format I hope to record events from now all the way to the inevitable race war" and by December 2018 had joined an extreme right-wing website forum, said to be an online meeting ground for fascists who wrote about "direct actions".
On the first day he accessed the forum, the defendant downloaded a manual which contained a viable recipe for the highly explosive chemical ammonium nitrate, and later posted on the site a publication which contained instructions on the making of homemade firearms, ammunition and silencers.
Giving evidence the defendant said he had few friends and claimed he adopted a fake right-wing persona for "shock value" to feel better about himself.
