GUILTY TO MAKING AND POSSESSING INDECENT IMAGES OF CHILDREN
A teenager who promoted neo-Nazi Satanism online has been jailed for terrorism offences and having videos of a girl cutting his name into her body.Vincent Charlton, 17, from Birtley, Gateshead, can be publicly named after reporting restrictions were lifted following an application by the BBC.At Newcastle Crown Court he was sentenced to two years and four months in prison.Judge Adams said there was a “significant risk of him causing serious harm”.Charlton pleaded guilty in 2023 to disseminating terrorist publications, four counts of possessing documents useful to a terrorist, and making and possessing indecent images of children.Warning - this article contains distressing contentAngus MacDonald, prosecuting, said Charlton’s mobile phone contained videos of a 13-year-old girl in the US, and messages between them “demonstrate the control Vincent exerted over a vulnerable young child which caused her to harm herself and send images of that harm to him.”Other indecent images he possessed included videos of very young children being raped and sexually abused.When initially released on bail, after first being arrested in May, he broke his conditions by accessing social media hundreds of times, including looking at accounts of children and trying to contact one, and separately messaging a girl and inciting her to self-harm.There was evidence that Charlton was a member of a Telegram group associated with the “764” cult, which promotes murder, sexual abuse, self-harm, and terrorism.It is currently the subject of police investigations in several countries.In one online channel Charlton uploaded 939 documents, including bomb-making manuals.When asked by another user if he was going to “blow up a school”, Charlton responded by saying “of course”, and then shared a guide on how to build a pipe bomb and another on assassination techniques.The judge said Charlton had promoted the Nazi Satanist group Order of the Nine Angles, which seeks a supernatural “Satanic empire” to end modern civilisation and encourages crime, rape, and the idea that murder is the ultimate goal.The group is connected to the banned terrorist groups National Action, Sonnenkrieg Division and Atomwaffen Division, the court was told.Expert reports said Charlton had an interest in “gore” from the age of 12, as well as websites fixated on “real death” and graphic violence.Toby Hedworth KC, defending, stated that Charlton has been diagnosed as autistic and has changed significantly during imprisonment.
His mother reported he has “massively grown up” in prison and displayed “impeccable behaviour”.The court also sentenced him to an extended licence period of one year after release.
