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A teenager from South East London has been detained for sharing a bomb-making guide online. He disguised it as a guide for the popular video game Minecraft. Extremecraft Connor Burke, 19, an 19-year-old London student at the university, posted the manual, which contained information on how to create improvised explosive devices (IEDs), on Telegram to a group that includes around 12,000 users. Police identified Burke through his social media accounts, and then arrested the man at his Bexleyheath family home. They also discovered documents related to terrorists on Burke's digital devices. All of this was documented by Woolwich Crown Court. The court was also informed that an investigation into his bedroom found a copy of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf and The Anarchist Cookbook. Extremecraft These books gave instructions on how to build explosives. He pleaded guilty to disseminating a terrorist publication and to four counts of possession of a document likely to be useful to someone planning or committing an act of terrorism, at a hearing in July 2021. He was sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court to a total of 42 months' jail and an additional 12 months on licence. University student Connor Burke, 19, has been jailed for sharing a bomb-making manual online, after a copy of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf was found in his room