UK teenager who killed herself after terror charges ‘was groomed by neo-Nazi’

UK teenager who killed herself after terror charges ‘was groomed by neo-Nazi’
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UK teenager who killed herself after terror charges ‘was groomed by neo-Nazi’
Author: Hannah Al-Othman North of England correspondent
Published: Feb, 27 2025 19:29

Summary at a Glance

Sixteen-year-old Rhianan Rudd, who was autistic, had been referred to the government’s Prevent counter-radicalisation programme by her mother, Emily Carter, the counsel to the inquest, Edward Pleeth, told the hearing.

Rhianan was found dead at Bluebell House residential home in Nottinghamshire on 19 May 2022, the chief coroner, Judge Durran, told the inquest at Chesterfield coroner’s court.

Rhianan Rudd, 16, was referred to Prevent by her mother after becoming ‘fixated on Hitler’, inquest told.

The inquest was told Rhianan had sent messages saying she “wants to kill someone in the school or blow up a Jewish place of worship” and that she “does not care who she kills and nothing matters any more”.

A teenager who killed herself after becoming the youngest person in the UK to be charged with terror offences had been groomed online by an American “neo-Nazi”, an inquest has been told.

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