--- born: ~2003 category: Extremism & Violent Networks created: 2026-05-22 location: New Brancepeth, County Durham, England summary: Jack Reed was a 16-year-old neo-Nazi from County Durham convicted in November 2019 of six terrorism offences including preparation of a terrorist attack, whose handwritten manifesto contained an Order of Nine Angles symbol and listed Jewish community venues among his planned targets in Durham. tags: - Person - NeoNazi - O9A - UK - TerroristConviction - ViolentExtremism - Accelerationism - CountyDurham updated: 2026-05-22 --- Jack Reed, of Woodbine Terrace, New Brancepeth, County Durham, was convicted at Manchester Crown Court in November 2019 of six terrorism offences committed between October 2017 and March 2019, when he was aged 14 to 16. He was sentenced in January 2020 by Judge David Stockdale QC, the former Recorder of Manchester, to six years and eight months' detention in a Young Offenders' Institute with a five-year extended licence, with the Parole Board prohibited from considering early release until he had served two-thirds of his sentence. Reed became one of the youngest persons convicted of terrorism offences in the United Kingdom at the time of his trial. ### Offences and Evidence Police searched Reed's family home in New Brancepeth and recovered a handwritten manifesto, which Reed had titled "Storm 88 - A Manual For Practical And Sensible Guerrilla Warfare Against The Kike System In The Durham City Area, Sieg Heil." The manifesto listed "areas to attack" in Durham, including schools, pubs, council buildings, and post offices, and outlined planned arson attacks on local synagogues using Molotov cocktails.[^1] An [Order of Nine Angles](/organizations/order-of-nine-angles/) (O9A) symbol was hand-drawn in the manifesto. The prosecution described Reed's stated ideology as "occult neo-Nazism," making him one of the first UK terrorism defendants where a specific link to O9A was publicly cited in court proceedings.[^2] Computer and phone forensic analysis uncovered extensive internet searches on firearms, explosives, and knives, together with downloads of extreme right-wing material. Reed had described himself in writing as a "natural sadist" and expressed admiration for [Adolf Hitler](/people/adolf-hitler/).[^1] The six counts at conviction were: preparation of terrorist acts (section 5, Terrorism Act 2006); disseminating a terrorist publication (section 2, Terrorism Act 2006); possessing an article for a terrorist purpose (section 3, Terrorism Act 2006); and three counts of possessing a document containing information useful to a terrorist (section 58, Terrorism Act 2000). ### Sentencing Judge Stockdale QC described Reed as "highly intelligent, widely read, quick-thinking and articulate" and told him it was "a matter of infinite regret that you pursued at such a young age a twisted and, many would say, a sick ideological path."[^3] On 23 December of the same year, Reed received a separate concurrent sentence: an 18-month Detention Training Order for five sexual assaults against a schoolgirl, run concurrently with the terrorism sentence already being served.[^3] ### Anonymity and Naming Reed was initially subject to a reporting restriction order under section 45 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999, which prohibited identification. In January 2021, a judge rejected a bid to maintain his anonymity, and he was publicly named in media reports.[^4] ### O9A Context Reed's case is among the most explicit in terms of the O9A symbol's direct presence in a terrorism evidence file. In the core eight cases HOPE not hate cited in its "Order of Nine Angles: An Incubator of Terrorism" chapter (State of Hate 2020), Reed's case is described as involving a terror manual with an O9A symbol "hand-drawn" on it.[^5] This distinguishes his case from those where O9A links were inferred from associated materials rather than from documentary evidence within the charged terrorism material itself. Reed was not charged with O9A membership or any offence connected to O9A as an organisation; the O9A symbol in the manifesto was cited as evidence of ideological orientation rather than as a standalone charge. [^1]: Enfield Independent (PA). "Nazi terrorist named after judge rejects anonymity bid." 2021. https://www.enfieldindependent.co.uk/news/national/19002125.nazi-terrorist-named-judge-rejects-anonymity-bid/ [^2]: HOPE not hate. "Order of Nine Angles: An Incubator of Terrorism." *State of Hate 2020.* https://hopenothate.org.uk/chapter/order-of-nine-angles-an-incubator-of-terrorism/ [^3]: ITV News. "Teenage terrorist claims he was 'tipped off' about police raid." January 6, 2020. https://www.itv.com/news/2020-01-06/teenage-terrorist-claims-he-was-tipped-off-about-police-raid; Far-Right Criminals. "Terror plot: Durham teenage neo-Nazi named as Jack Reed." January 12, 2021. https://far-rightcriminals.com/2021/01/12/terror-plot-durham-teenage-neo-nazi-named-as-jack-reed/ [^4]: US Sun. "Boy who became UK's youngest terrorist at 16 with neo-Nazi plot unmasked after losing bid to keep anonymity." 2021. https://www.the-sun.com/news/2122465/teen-neo-nazi-durham-named-anonymity/ [^5]: ISD Global. "The Order of Nine Angles." Explainer, August 2022. https://www.isdglobal.org/isd-explainer/the-order-of-nine-angles/