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Anzac Day terror plot: Blackburn teenager admits inciting attack | Anzac Day terror plot: Blackburn teenager admits inciting attack |
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A teenager from Blackburn has admitted involvement in a terror plot to attack an Anzac Day parade in Australia. | |
The 15-year-old pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to one count of inciting terrorism by encouraging the murder of police officers during the event in Melbourne. No attack ever took place. | |
He appeared via video link from Manchester Crown Court, speaking only to enter his plea. | |
The boy cannot be named for legal reasons. | The boy cannot be named for legal reasons. |
According to the charge, he incited a person to commit an act of terrorism, wholly or partly outside the UK, namely the murder of police officers during an attack on the annual Anzac Day parade. | |
The prosecution dropped a second charge of inciting terrorism overseas in relation to beheading a person in Australia. | |
The teenager will be sentenced in Manchester on 3 September. | |
Anzac Day, held on 25 April each year, commemorates the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps' World War One battle in Gallipoli. |