She was at first portrayed as a dangerous teenage far-Right extremist, having become Britain’s youngest girl to be charged with terrorism offences aged 15.
Friends saw Rhianan Rudd draw pictures in schoolbooks of swastikas and Adolf Hitler, claim the Holocaust did not happen and suggest Jews were controlling banks.
But the story behind how this vulnerable autistic girl from Derbyshire became drawn into that dark world through online grooming also soon became hugely troubling.
Rhianan was investigated by MI5 after she downloaded a bomb-making manual, said she wanted to blow up a synagogue and carved a swastika onto her forehead.
It later became clear
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