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24.02.2024 - 09:27 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A baby-faced student who wrote a 'how to' guide on weapons and bombs warned of the 'carnage' he would commit in a chilling video recorded from his bedroom. Jacob Graham, 20, from Liverpool, was found guilty of terror offences on Thursday (February 22).
Using the name 'Destro the Destroyer', the college student recorded dozens of video messages from a bedroom in his mother's home where he lived in Norris Green and wrote a 'Freedom Encyclopaedia' with instructions on how to build weapons and explosives. Manchester Crown Court heard Graham was motivated by a hatred for the government and planned to kill 50 or more people.
Clips from a video shown in court feature the baby-faced teenager showing a knife off on camera, calling it a 'nice bit of kit'. Based on his 'expert examination', he identifies the knife as being 'full tang', before putting it in a sheath and saying, 'Strap that onto your belt'.
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In another clip, Graham, who wears a headset with a microphone, looks at the camera, and says: "We all know we can't end my life just yet. I've got so much carnage to commit." He then appears to thank himself for 'talking', 'watching this video back' and 'living'.
The jury heard evidence that Graham had written a document setting out his plan to commit a bombing campaign with the aim of killing 50 or more people, and that he had then gone on to acquire chemicals and experiment with construction of explosives. Graham, who appeared at Manchester Crown Court on Thursday (February 22), was convicted of the following offences:
He was found to be not guilty on one additional charge on the indictment, that he had himself engaged in conduct in preparation for acts of
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