Bradford man caught with bomb making manuals jailed for terror offences
The 21 year old admitted possessing a large amount of racist neo-Nazi literature
A Bradford man has been handed a two year jail term after admitting to the possession of terrorist training documents, including instructions on how to make explosives and poisons.
21 year old Ondrej Sidelka of Elwyn Road pleaded guilty to eight counts of possessing information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism in April.
His offending was uncovered in November 2022 when he was arrested and his phone was scanned by police.
Officers discovered a large quantity of racist, homophobic, antisemitic and neo-Nazi material was found in his Google Drive and Dropbox storage accounts.
Instructions on producing weapons were also found, alongside propaganda from a number of known neo-Nazi organisations.
Sidelka had also collected material glorifying mass murder, including a video of the 2019 New Zealand mosque attack which killed 51 people.
Detective Chief Superintendent James Dunkerley, Head of Counter Terrorism Policing North East, said:
“The shocking and disturbing racist material Sidelka downloaded, as well as his interest in extreme violence and manufacturing homemade firearms, show the threat he posed to the community.
“The efforts he made to disguise his true identity online, and to post opinions on social media which were not as extreme as those he held in private, indicate that he knew how unacceptable his views really were.
“Sidelka was 18 at the time he committed these offences. Young people are particularly vulnerable when it comes to being influenced by hateful and harmful ideologies online, and I would urge people to ACT Early and help us to stop young people being drawn into extremism.”