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Teenager inspired by Southport killer who planned attack on Oasis concert sentenced
McKenzie Morgan, 18, idolized the Southport killer and planned attacks on a dance school and the Oasis concert, sentenced to 14 months for possessing terrorist materials.
- Appearing at the Old Bailey on January 16, McKenzie Morgan, 18, was sentenced to 14 months in youth detention after admitting possession of an 188-page al-Qaeda Training Manual on his phone.
- Prosecutors say between April 7 and June 2, Morgan praised Axel Rudakubana in Snapchat messages while he was 17.
- Snapchat exchanges and a note on mobile headed 'places to attack' detail plans to bomb the July 4 Oasis reunion concert at Principality Stadium, Cardiff, and target Dance Stars Academy.
- Following his arrest at his Cwmbran home, officers seized electronic devices and mobile phones containing a terrorist manual plus three extracted pages with stabbing instructions.
- At a June 2 appointment he told a nurse he planned a Rudakubana-style attack, was referred to children’s mental-health services and for an autism assessment, while defence barrister Michael Stradling noted no violent history and risks of self-harm.
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Teenager jailed over plot to copy Southport attacks at Oasis concert
A teenager who planned to copy the Southport attacks has been sentenced to 14 months in a young offenders’ institution. McKenzie Morgan from Cwmbran in Wales pleaded guilty to possession of an al-Qaeda training manual – despite having no links to radical Islamist ideology.
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