The teen, now aged 19, was radicalised online and had planned to ram a car into a group of people in Christchurch and then stab them. Last February, the boy who cannot be named for legal reasons was sentenced to intensive supervision at Christchurch District Court and has been regularly seeing a judge for judicial monitoring sessions. He apologised for breaching his intensive supervision order – and had admitted using the phone the following day on both occasions. Judge O'Driscoll accepted that it was clear he had not been using the phone or internet for any radical, extremist, or religious content. The teen is due back in court for a further judicial monitoring session on May 10.

Source: Otago Daily Times April 08, 2019 23:37 UTC