Student Is In Jail After Posing As A Bombmaking Manual As Minecraft Guide

A teenager from South East London has been jailed for sharing a bomb-making guide online. He disguised it as a guide to the popular video game Minecraft.

Connor Burke, 19, a student at London's University, shared the manual on Telegram with an audience of approximately 12,000 users. The manual contained details on how to make improvised explosive device (IEDs).

Police have tracked Burke through his social media accounts and detained him at his Bexleyheath family home. They also discovered terrorist-related documents on Burke's electronic devices. All of this was documented by Woolwich Crown Court. Lalalalal

The court was also told that an investigation into his bedroom found a copy of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf and The Anarchist Cookbook. These books provided instructions on how to build explosives.

He pleaded guilty to distributing the publication of a terrorist and four counts of possessing an item that is likely to be useful to someone who is planning or committing an act of terrorism, in a hearing in July 2021.

He was sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court to a total of 42 months' jail and another 12 months' licence.

Connor Burke, a 19-year-old student at the university, was sentenced to prison after sharing a bomb-making tutorial online. He made the discovery after Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf was discovered in his room.

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