DESCRIPTION:
Ben John stood before a jury at Leicester Crown Court. The 21-year-old denied all seven of the charges he faced. John had been arrested around a year and a half earlier after the authorities had raided his flat in January 2020. Counter-Terrorism Policing East Midlands had been monitoring his online activity for some time. Although he was later released, an investigation by a Special Branch of Lincolnshire Police took most of the year with a team of forensic investigators trying to bring to light the dark secrets of Ben John’s digital life…
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Court documents and information from the following news organisations were referenced in this episode: INEWS, INDEPENDENT, LEICESTER MERCURY, DAILY MAIL, TELEGRAPH, BBC NEWS, LINCOLN LITE, THE GUARDIAN, LINCOLNSHIRE LIVE, THE TIMES, ITV NEWS, MIRROR, METRO and DAILY RECORD
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MUSIC:
Fleeting by Alice In Winter
St. Mary by Chelsea McGough
Headwind by Wild Wonder
Stay With Me by Moments
Endless Time by Moments
Into by Hill
Sussex by Stephen Keech
REFERENCES:
LINCOLNSHIRE POLICE
https://www.lincs.police.uk/news-campaigns/news/2020/lincoln-man-charged-with-terrorism-offences/
https://www.lincs.police.uk/news-campaigns/news/2021/man-found-in-possession-of-terrorist-material-convicted/
https://www.lincs.police.uk/news-campaigns/news/2021/convicted-terrorist-sentenced/
DIGITAL ARTICLES
INEWS
https://inews.co.uk/news/crime-why-judges-sentence-reading-novels-viewing-bodies-morgue-trouble-jail-1182031
https://inews.co.uk/opinion/neo-nazi-read-classic-literature-wont-end-far-right-extremism-1181939
INDEPENDENT
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/nazi-terror-case-classic-literature-jail-b1912643.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/neo-nazi-terror-literature-review-sentence-b1913315.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/ben-john-neo-nazi-books-b1928620.html
LEICESTER MERCURY
https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/right-wing-extremist-student-caught-5738108
https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/student-denies-supporting-terrorist-related-5748757
https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/criminology-student-faces-jail-possessing-5778364
https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/special-branch-inquiry-led-students-5780488
https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/white-supremacist-sentenced-read-pride-5853738
https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/call-unduly-lenient-terror-sentencing-5865944
DAILY MAIL
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9944207/Student-caught-70-000-white-supremacist-documents-bomb-making-manual-avoids-jail.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9952059/Attorney-General-urged-review-sentence-Neo-Nazi-man-ordered-read-Dickens-Austen.html
TELEGRAPH
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09/01/nazi-sympathiser-spared-jail-long-reads-pride-prejudice/
BBC NEWS
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-54991400
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-55189049
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3q03l4kyxpo
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-58397088
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-58425648
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-58718138
LINCOLN LITE
https://thelincolnite.co.uk/2020/11/lincoln-right-wing-extremist-charged-with-terrorism/
https://thelincolnite.co.uk/2020/12/trial-date-set-for-lincoln-man-charged-with-right-wing-extremism/
https://thelincolnite.co.uk/2021/08/lincoln-white-supremacist-guilty-of-terrorism-offences/
https://thelincolnite.co.uk/2021/08/lincoln-white-supremacist-avoids-jail-over-racially-motivated-terrorism-offence/
https://thelincolnite.co.uk/2021/09/activist-group-calls-for-attorney-general-review-of-lincoln-far-right-extremist-sentence/
THE GUARDIAN
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/sep/01/judge-orders-rightwing-extremist-to-read-classic-literature-or-face-prison
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/sep/02/call-sentence-review-neo-nazi-told-read-classic-literature
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/02/ben-john-white-supremacist-austen-grim-pattern-online-radicalisation-covid
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/02/a-racist-a-judge-and-a-clear-case-of-white-privilege
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/05/i-love-jane-austen-but-im-not-her-novels-can-save-neo-nazis
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/28/court-of-appeal-to-review-sentence-of-white-supremacist-told-to-read-classsics
LINCOLNSHIRE LIVE
https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/lincoln-man-appears-court-over-4766887
https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/lincoln-news/lincoln-student-faces-jail-possessing-5779831
https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/lincoln-news/white-supremacist-lincoln-sentenced-read-5854318
https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/lincolnshire-police-appeal-white-supremacists-5865356
https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/attorney-general-asked-review-sentence-5866754
THE TIMES
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/classics-need-a-rewrite-if-theyre-to-turn-an-extremist-3zddglmt9
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/call-for-sentence-review-as-right-wing-extremist-is-ordered-to-read-classic-books-3lk2kb7n2
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/wrong-kind-of-sentence-mlud-great-books-dont-improve-us-m0jpl602b
ITV NEWS
https://www.itv.com/news/central/2021-09-01/white-supremacist-sentenced-to-read-literary-classics
MIRROR
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/white-supremacist-spared-jail-sentenced-24882280
METRO
https://metro.co.uk/2021/09/01/lincoln-nazi-sympathiser-avoids-jail-if-he-reads-pride-and-prejudice-15187093/
DAILY RECORD
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/right-wing-extremist-student-caught-24684697
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