The baby-faced student with 'terrorist' idol who wrote bomb 'how to guides' from his mum's home

A student who wrote a 'how to' guide on weapons and bombs has been found guilty of terror offences.

Jacob Graham, a 20-year-old college student, dedicated the guide to 'misfits' and 'social nobodies', Manchester Crown Court heard. It explained in detail how to make weapons, explosives, fuses, pipe bombs, gunpowder, nail and car bombs.

A police investigation found Graham, whose 'idol' was US terrorist Theodore Kaczynski the 'Unabomber', spoke of feeling wronged by his college and going on a 'rampage'. Using the name 'Destro the Destroyer', he recorded dozens of video messages from a bedroom in his mother's home where he lived in Norris Green, Liverpool, sending numerous manuals and giving instructions on weapons, explosives and poisons.

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The court heard how the student at Hugh Baird College in Bootle also blamed the government for his 'unsatisfactory' life. He was found guilty by a jury on Thursday (February 23) of one count of the preparation of terrorist acts, four counts of possession of information for terrorist purposes and two of dissemination of a terrorist publication, between May 2022 and May 2023.

Graham was cleared of one count of preparation of terrorist acts following the five-week trial. Jurors heard Graham was motivated by a hatred and contempt for the government, whom he perceived as tyrannical and oppressive of those he termed 'working class' people.

He acquired a large number of instructions needed to construct bombs, firearms and ammunition and sourced and obtained chemicals as well as a 3D printer. He also carried out chemical experiments, the court heard.

After he was arrested on May 26, 2023, police found a number of