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Teenage boy ‘looked up music festival as location for terror attack’, jury hears

Source: PA Archive

A teenage Muslim convert looked up the Isle of Wight Festival as a potential target for a terror attack he planned after developing an “Islamic extremist mindset”, a jury has heard.

The 16-year-old boy, who was 15 at the time and cannot be named due to his age, is also alleged to have sent Isis videos of beheadings and violence online to those who appeared to share a “similar mindset”.

As part of his alleged plot to carry out a terror attack, he

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