Bonus Episode 16

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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