Blackburn teenager plotted Anzac Day police deaths

A plot by a Blackburn teenager to attack an Anzac Day parade in Australia would "in all probability" have caused a number of deaths if it had not been stopped, a court has heard.

At a sentencing hearing, Manchester Crown Court heard the 15-year-old boy encouraged a Melbourne man to behead police officers at a parade in April.

The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is thought to be the youngest Briton guilty of a terror offence.

The BBC's Daniel Sandford reports.

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