Ben Styles, 23, from Leamington Spa, has appeared in court charged with planning an extreme right-wing terror attack.

It's alleged he began making a firearm, had live ammo, and drafted a manifesto
It's alleged that between 2019 and February 2021 he purchased items and acquired instructions to construct a lethal firearm and live ammunition, the partial construction of a lethal firearm, the manufacture of live ammunition and the composition of a draft “manifesto”
He is also charged with three counts of possessing a document useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism - these comprise firearms manuals

Further charges include possessing a prohibited weapon, possession of ammunition and possession of a Class A drug
The bearded defendant appeared at the Old Bailey for today’s preliminary hearing on a video link from Bullingdon prison.

He spoke only to confirm his name and age
Mr Justice Sweeney set a plea hearing for 27 August at Birmingham Crown Court.

A trial was fixed for 21 February 2022 at the same venue

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30 Apr
Ben Hannam, recently sacked from the Met Police, is being sentenced this morning at the Old Bailey for neo-Nazi terror offences, fraud, and possessing prohibited images of children.

We are hearing details of the images offence for the first time today (upsetting info below)
When the home of the then police constable was searched by Met detectives last year, his computer was found to contain a folder of “anime cartoons” of children and young people.

At the time, Hannam was working as an officer among north London communities
Prosecutor Dan Pawson-Pounds told the court: “Although most of the files in this folder did not show any sexual acts, there was a series of twelve drawings of the same hand-drawn girl, who appeared to be eight or nine years old, engaged in acts of intercourse”
Read 10 tweets
28 Apr
BREAKING: Two police officers have been charged with misconduct in public office in connection with photographs taken and circulated relating to the scene where sisters Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman were murdered last summer
PC Deniz Jaffer, 47, and PC Jamie Lewis, 32 - of the Met Police - will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on 27 May 2021 for their first hearing.

Both officers have each been charged with one count of misconduct in public office
The misconduct relates to the investigation into the deaths of 46-year-old Bibaa Henry and 27-year-old Nicole Smallman in Fryent Country Park in Wembley in June 2020
Read 4 tweets
28 Apr
Ben Raymond (and supporter) outside court just now.

Raymond appeared here charged with remaining a member of the neo-Nazi group National Action after it was banned.

He's also charged with three counts of possessing information useful to a terrorist
National Action was co-founded by Raymond in 2013 before being proscribed as a terrorist organisation three years later.

Westminster Magistrates' Court heard that he's alleged to have stayed in the group between December 2016 and September 2017
The terrorist information he's accused of possessing - including documents on explosives - was allegedly on his hard-drives in 2016 and 2017.

When asked to indicate pleas, he said "I do not indicate” after each charge was put to him
Read 6 tweets
27 Apr
A senior British Transport Police officer has admitted his force failed to work effectively with other emergency services on the night of the Manchester Arena bombing

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…
Robin Smith was the BTP 'gold commander' that night.

The Manchester Arena Inquiry heard he only spoke to the gold commander at Greater Manchester Police two hours and 45 minutes after the attack
He agreed it was "not acceptable" that it took so long for the two to speak to each other

He also did not try to speak to senior fire and ambulance services officers
Read 4 tweets
27 Apr
Thread on evidence today at the inquests for Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones.

The evidence focused on the killer Usman Khan, a convicted terrorist seen here going to London alone after the trip was approved by police and probation.

His attack happened within hours of this image
Khan, originally from Stoke, spent eight years in prison before his automatic release on licence in December 2018.

A court of appeal judgment on Khan meant the parole board had no say over whether he was released at that stage
He'd been jailed for planning to organise a terrorist training camp in Pakistan.

He remained among the 70 highest risk inmates in the entire country throughout his time in prison.

He was involved in several attacks in jail and associated with notorious terrorists
Read 20 tweets
8 Apr
The Manchester Arena and Parsons Green bombers have appeared in court charged with assaulting a prison officer.

Hashem Abedi said: "I did assault that filthy pig but I don't see any wrongdoing in doing that".

Ahmed Hassan said the judge was destined for "hellfire"
The pair appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court from different rooms at HMP Frankland, County Durham.

They are accused of assaulting the officer together at London's Belmarsh prison last May.

Abedi is accused of assaulting a second officer during the same incident
The pair were sent to Woolwich Crown Court for a preliminary hearing on 5 May.

Another terrorist prisoner, Muhammed Saeed, is also a defendant in the case
Read 7 tweets

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