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Court of Appeal gave him an immediate two-year jail term

Ben John, 22, has been sentenced to an immediate prison term after the Solicitor General, Alex Chalk QC MP personally presented the case at the Court

Ben John had been given suspended sentence for terrorism offence and told to read classic literature

The 22-year-old, who was given a suspended term for terror offences on the condition he read Jane Austen, now faces time behind bars

Ben John, who was told to read Austen and Shakespeare, has his original suspended sentence quashed.

Ben John, who was described as a white supremacist, was given a two-year suspended sentence at Leicester Crown Court last August after he was convicted of terrorism offences.

A former student who was given a suspended prison sentence and told to read classic literature after being convicted of a terrorism offence has now been jailed.

Ben John, 22, has been sentenced to an immediate prison term after the Solicitor General, Alex Chalk QC MP personally presented the case at the Court of Appeal.

The verdicts cannot be overturned and the defendants retried without new evidence being presented. But Attorney General Suella Braverman is “carefully considering” referring it to the Court of Appeal to “clarify the law for future cases.”

Ben John was given a two-year suspended sentence in August last year.