Jack Reed, who can finally be named after a bid to keep his identity secret was rejected yesterday, amassed a horrifying library of neo-Nazi propaganda.
Aged 16, he was convicted of attempting to obtain ingredients to make explosives in a twisted bid to start a ‘race war’ in his home city of Durham.
When he was sentenced, a judge rejected a bid by the media to identify him because he also faced separate child sex charges – for which he has now been given an additional 18 months
Giving evidence, he said he had few friends and no intention of carrying out any attacks, insisting he adopted a fake persona for ‘shock value’. In November 2019, Reed – then 16 – was found guilty of six offences at Manchester Crown Court including preparation of terrorist acts and disseminating a terrorist publication. The following January a judge ordered him to be detained for six years and eight months.
Judge David Stockdale QC said ‘perhaps most disturbing’ element of the case was that Reed was ‘a highly intelligent, widely read, quick-thinking and articulate young man’.
Before Christmas at Leeds Youth Court, Reed was given a separate 18-month custodial sentence for five sexual assaults against a schoolgirl.
That sentence will run concurrently with his term for the terror offences.
His identification follows submissions from the media and a judge’s ruling that the Crown Court has ‘no power… to make the order sought’.