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CTPSE charge 18 year old connected to 'Extreme Right Wing Terrorism'

CTPSE charge 18 year old connected to 'Extreme Right Wing Terrorism'

Teenager Oliver Riley faces three separate terrorism charges linked to ‘Extreme Right Wing Terrorism’ ideology, Counter Terrorism Policing South East has said.

18 year-old Riley of Watlington, Oxfordshire, has been charged with:

  • Three counts of possession of a document or record containing information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism under Section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000;
  • Providing a service to others that enables them to obtain, read, listen to or look at such a publication and intended or was reckless as to whether an effect of his conduct would be a direct or indirect encouragement or other inducement to the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism contrary to Section 2 of the Terrorism Act 2006, and;
  • Sending by means of a public electronic communications network a message that was grossly offensive contrary to Section 127 of the Communication Act 2003.

Arrested in Gloucestershire in October last year, Riley is due to appear in Westminster Magistrates’ Court on 28 June.

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