A BID by a senior lawyer to get a Nazi-worshipping teenager back onto the streets – who confessed to plotting a deadly shooting at a Scots high school – has been rejected by a judge.
The 17-year-old “idolised” the killers behind the Columbine High School massacre in Colorado in the United States in 1999 which saw 12 students and a teacher gunned down.
The teen was hauled back into court today to be sentenced over his crimes[/caption]
He then turned up to a secondary school in full combat gear and carrying an imitation gun causing a major police operation.
He was hauled back into court today to be sentenced over his crimes when his defence KC Shelagh McCall asked for a “rigorous lengthy” community payback order which was a recommendation by the author of the teenager’s background report.
But judge Lord Arthurson said: “The red flags in these matters cause me significant concern and I am not satisfied about the route asked for by senior counsel.
“I take a serious view of the gravity of the circumstances and I will adjourn for the preparation of a specific independent risk assessment.”
The boy, who cannot be named because he is under 18, sparked the large-scale police operation in the summer of 2023 when the picture of him with the gun emerged on social media.
He was stopped by cops on returning from holiday with family in July 2023 and they found files on his phone about ‘homemade’ firearms and poisons.
There were 65 videos of Columbine with added music in a bid to “glamourise” the slaughter.
Footage also emerged of him posing on TikTok in black combat clothes and a skeleton mask.
The teen, who is now transgender, had already been referred to a UK-wide programme designed to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism.
He also held racist and pro-Nazi views.
Last month he pled guilty at the High Court in Glasgow to a breach of the peace and a charge under the Terrorism Act.
The crimes spanned between June 2022 and July 2023.
The teenager had his bail refused and appeared before Lord Arthurson today to be sentenced.
The matter will call again in June at the High Court in Kilmarnock.
He pled guilty at the High Court in Glasgow to a charge under the Terrorism Act[/caption]
