A TEENAGE neonazi terrorist who identified possible targets in his home city Durham was locked up for six years and eight months today.

The 17-year-old drafted his own manifesto which listed “areas to attack” in Durham such as schools, pubs and council buildings.

He also wrote of his plan to conduct an arson spree with Molotov cocktails on local synagogues.

Various handwritten documents were seized from his bedroom in March by police who also found a collection of far-right literature, Manchester Crown Court heard.

Analysis of his computer devices and mobile phone uncovered numerous internet searches on firearms, explosives and knives.

In November, jurors found him guilty of preparation of terrorist acts between October 2017 and March last year.

The youth was also unanimously found guilty of disseminating a terrorist publication, possessing an article for a purpose connected with terrorism and three counts of possessing a document or record containing information likely to be useful to a terrorist.

The defendant said he had no intention of carrying out any attacks and claimed he adopted a fake right-wing persona for “shock value.”

Judge David Stockdale QC, the Recorder of Manchester, imposed an extended licence period of five years after he ruled the defendant posed a significant risk to the public of serious harm by committing further offences.

The youth must also serve two-thirds of his custodial term before the Parole Board can consider if he is safe to be released.

Judge Stockdale told him: “While your youth is a powerful mitigating factor, it is also a feature of this case which is perhaps most disturbing.”