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image captionThe teenager previously admitted 12 terror offences at the Old Bailey
A teenager who is the youngest person in the UK to commit a terror offence has been given a two-year youth rehabilitation order.
The 16-year-old boy from Cornwall admitted 12 offences including downloading a bomb-making manual.
At the Old Bailey, Judge Mark Dennis QC said a custodial sentence would undo the progress made since the boy was arrested in July 2019.
The teenager, who cannot be named, had significant vulnerabilities , he said.
The boy collected far right material and expressed racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic views on online platforms between 2018 and July 2019, the court heard.