Blackburn British teenager,
who the judge ruled will remain anonymous due to his age, will serve at least
five years in custody for inciting terrorism.
The fifteen years old sent
thousands of online messages to an alleged Australian jihadist, and was
planning "a massacre", the court heard.
He is believed to be the
youngest Briton guilty of a terror offence.
The plot to murder a number
of police officers at the parade in Melbourne earlier this year would "in
all probability" have succeeded had British police not cracked the boy's
phone and alerted Australian police, the court had heard.
Anzac Day, held on 25 April
each year, commemorates the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps' World War
One battle in Gallipoli, and this year marked its centenary.
Sentencing the teenager,
who pleaded guilty to one count of inciting terrorism, judge Mr Justice
Saunders said he would have "welcomed the notoriety" had the plot
succeeded.
The teenage boy who plotted
to behead police officers at an Anzac Day parade in Australia has now been sentenced
to life.
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