"Destro the Destroyer": The baby-faced student who wrote 'how-to' guide on weapons and bombs for 'misfits and nobodies' from his mum's house

A baby-faced college student who wrote bomb 'how to guides' from his mums house and shared videos of him showing off a huge knife online has been jailed.

Then a teenager, he warned of the 'carnage' he would commit in a chilling video recorded from his bedroom, was motivated by a hatred for the government and planned to kill 50 or more people in a 'bombing campaign', court previously heard.

A major investigation into Jacob Graham, 20, who went by Destro the Destroyer online, led police to uncover a huge number of manuals, instructions, and publications which Graham had collected and stored on his media devices, and which were intended to provide instruction on how to manufacture firearms, ammunition and explosives.

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He had also constructed a document he called ‘Freedom Encyclopaedia’ and shared it with contacts over the internet. This was a manual filled with instructions on how to build weapons, including shotguns, nail bombs, explosives, including gunpowder and plastic explosive; ignition devices and instructions on how the perpetrators might evade the police.

The document included an introduction where Graham stated he intended it to be for ‘misfits, social nobodies, Anarchists and Terrorists’. The prosecution said that Graham intended his document to assist others in committing their own acts of terrorism and that Graham was motivated by hatred of the government and ecological concerns. Graham also sent instructional documents on how to construct explosives and a submachine gun to online contacts.

The jury previously heard evidence that Graham had written a document setting out his plan to commit a bombing campaign with the