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Teenager Who Posted ‘Terrorist’ Image Of Prince Harry Is Sent To Prison

A teenager who posted a disturbing image of Prince Harry that a British judge described as “abhorrent” has been sentenced to four years and three months in a young offenders’ institution.

The Guardian reported that Judge Rebecca Poulet let loose on 19 year-old Michal Szewczuk for taking to social media to post an image of Harry with a gun to his head against a blood-spattered background. Michal captioned the image, which was posted months after Harry married Meghan Markle, with the words, “See Ya Later Race Traitor.”

Szewczuk also wrote a blog that has been described as “extremely violent and aggressively misogynistic. In the blog, the teenager attempted to justify the rape of women and children in the pursuit of an Aryan race.

“The posts I have seen and read are abhorrent as well as criminal by reason of their clear intention to encourage terrorist acts,” Poulet said of the photo and blog. “Individuals were urged to go out and commit appalling acts of violence on others for no reason that can ever be understood by any right-thinking individuals.”

Szewczuk, who is a college student, pled guilty to two counts of encouraging terrorism and five counts of possession of terrorist material, including the White Resistance Manual and an al-Qaida training manual. He was sentenced alongside Oskar Dunn-Koczorowski, 18, who had admitted two counts of encouraging terrorism. The two young men, who only knew one another through online chatrooms, were arrested in December after posting images or links last summer influenced by extreme rightwing groups on Gab, a social media platform that attracts mainly far-right users.

One of the groups was Atomwaffen Division, which prosecutors described as “a youth-driven, national socialist group at the extreme end of the revolutionary rightwing spectrum” and said had been linked to five murders in the United States since 2017.

While sentencing Dunn-Koczorowski to 18 months detention, Poulet said, “You still hold deeply entrenched views in support of this extreme rightwing ideology.” Even Dunn-Koczorowski’s lawyer David Kitsen admitted that his mindset had not changed, quoting a medical report that said the teenager had a “lack of remorse” for his views and a “deeply entrenched ideology.”

Prosecutor Naomi Parsons said that the posts from the two teenagers “convey a message of the threat of and/or use of serious violence against others, in order to advance a political, ideological and racial cause (neo-Nazism) and in this way encourage terrorism.” She added that the posts targeted Jewish people, non-white people and anyone “perceived to be complicit in the perpetuation of multiculturalism.”

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