White supremacist Derbyshire teenager who inspired mass shooting could be extradited to the US
White supremacist Derbyshire teenager who inspired racist mass shooting in New York could be extradited to the US over his sickening videos shared online
- Daniel Harris, 19, posted white supremacist videos online promoting violence
- One fan of the Derbyshire teen’s content was Payton Gendron, a mass shooter
- Gendron killed 10 black people in a racially-motivated attack in Buffalo in May
- Harris may now be extradited to the US over his contribution to the massacre
A Derbyshire teenager could be extradited to the US after he was found guilty of sharing white supremacist and far-right material which inspired a mass murderer in New York.
Daniel Harris, 19, posted videos online which praised mass shootings motivated by white supremacist ideology and supported armed insurrection.
A member of Harris’ far-right audience was Payton Gendron, 19, who killed 10 black people in a mass shooting in May.
A manifesto shared by the killer included a screenshot from one of Harris’ videos, in which he said white Europeans should use violence to stop a ‘genocide’ against them.
Payton Gendron killed 10 black people in a racially-motivated mass shooting in May this year
Gendron carried out the horrific attack after watching Daniel Harris’s white supremacist content online
Harris now faces up to 12 years behind bars as well as possible extradition to the US, The Times reported.
When Harris was on trial for terrorism offences Manchester Crown Court heard he celebrated Gendron’s mass shooting in a video posted online hours after the attack in Buffalo, New York.
Harris was found guilty of five terrorism charges and acquitted of one.
One of the charges related to the fact that he had tried unsuccessfully to make a rifle using a 3D printer.
After he was convicted, prosecutor Joe Allman said Gendron had been ‘encouraged and in part motivated’ by Harris’s content.
However, he added: ‘What we do not say is the defendant was necessarily aware of this.’
The court also heard that Harris had little education after being taken out of school at the age of seven.
He was browsing sites with extremist content by the time he was 11, leading to his radicalisation.
A year before the murders in Buffalo, Gendron posted a comment on one of Harris’s videos which said: ‘You are not alone my friend :).’