Harry Vaughan: Satanist neo-Nazi jailed for contemporary intercourse crimes after being spared as a youngster
The son of a House of Lords clerk has been jailed for making an indecent picture of a kid – months after he was spared jail for terror offences and possessing little one abuse pictures.
Harry Vaughan, 21, was 18 when he admitted 14 terror offences and two additional counts of possessing indecent pictures of a kid.
He was handed a two-year suspended sentence along with a 60-day rehabilitation order and a 10-year terrorist notification order in November 2020.
Vaughan developed an curiosity in right-wing extremism, Satanism, the occult and violence after falling “down a rabbit hole of the internet” on the age of 14, the Old Bailey heard.
Police discovered 4,200 pictures and 302 recordsdata, together with an excessive right-wing terrorist e-book and paperwork referring to Satanism, neo-Nazism and antisemitism, on his laptop and different gadgets throughout a search of his household residence in Twickenham, south-west London.
He was arrested as a part of an investigation into a web-based discussion board utilized by extremists.
After strolling free from court docket, Vaughan – now referred to as Harry Blake – returned to the Old Bailey in June this yr when he admitted making an indecent picture of a kid in September 2022.
He additionally admitted three counts of possessing excessive pornography movies, along with an extra three counts of failing to adjust to a Serious Crime Prevention Order and three breaches of his terror notification order.
The breaches – together with failing to reveal a secret e-mail deal with and cryptocurrency accounts – befell only one month after he was initially sentenced in 2020.
On Thursday, he was sentenced to a complete of three years and two months behind bars.
An ‘articulate and clever’ scholar
Vaughan – whose father, Jake, is studying clerk and director of company companies on the House of Lords – had been a straight-A schoolboy on the unique Tiffin Grammar School in Kingston, southwest London.
He was an “articulate and intelligent” scholar who had turn into concerned in Satanism and right-wing extremism from the age of 14, regardless of having fun with “every advantage” that life has to supply, the Old Bailey heard.
He was arrested after boasting about faculty shootings and sharing explosives manuals and neo-Nazi propaganda on-line.
An knowledgeable mentioned the fabric he was viewing was “at most extreme fringe of Satanism and neo-Nazism” with “clear indications of racism.”
His mom was at work and his father was working in Richmond Park when police arrived on the household residence at 6.58am on 19 June 2019 – along with his two youthful sisters aged 10 and 14 answering the door.
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Naeem Mian KC, defending, mentioned Vaughan had “loving, committed parents” who questioned whether or not they had been chargeable for their son’s behaviour.
“The internet has opened up a very dark world. We cannot be sure what children are doing in their bedrooms,” Mr Mian mentioned.
Police unearthed a string of posters made by Vaughan together with one among mass assassin, Anders Breivik, together with the phrases “Every girl loves a mass murderer”.
Other posters had been emblazoned with slogans saying “It’s OK to be a school shooter” and “It’s OK to be a Nazi”.
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Vaughan had earlier looked for a lot of colleges near his residence utilizing Google Maps, the court docket heard.
Speaking after the sentence was handed, detective chief superintendent Gareth Rees, of the Met Police Counter Terrorism Command, mentioned: “Blake had been convicted of offences relating to sharing extremist content online, so restrictions were imposed to curb his access to computer systems.
“His breach of those circumstances was extraordinarily critical.
“Not only had he breached the conditions, but we uncovered that he had also been storing child abuse images.
“I hope this case sends the message that we carefully monitor people who find themselves beneath terrorism notification and crime prevention orders, and that we are going to convey them again to court docket the place we have discovered they’ve damaged these circumstances.”