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M0nica Sat 16-May-26 09:27:31

twaddle

keepingquiet

Interesting. Both her parents were teachers but they were homeless? There is a story to be told there.
This young woman was clealy vulnerable and open to the influence of a man she met on a dating app at the age of 15.
I am surprised there was no psychiatric assessment?
I hope she receives the help she needs in prison.

But why turn to neo-Nazi ideology and hate Kurds?

Because, problems with her background, and, as keepinguiet points out, her home background seems very unstable, even though her parents were professionals. To be the daughter of teachers who are homeless, suggests a dysfunctional home. We know nothing of the political atmoshere in the home.

Many youngsters found guilty of lone wolf aattacks like this have similar dysfunctonal homes and the turmoil of adolescence canlead to them hating a world they consider is treating them badly and to personify it as being all the fault of the 'other' in society.

The immigrant or ethnically different person who runs the local shop or is in her class at school. People who may have stable and loving families and are academically successful in a way she isn't. From there it is a short step to hating all foreigners, to blaming them for all that is bad in her life to wanting them out of the country, ethnically cleansed, being attracted to Nazi beliefs.

twaddle Sat 16-May-26 09:09:51

keepingquiet

Interesting. Both her parents were teachers but they were homeless? There is a story to be told there.
This young woman was clealy vulnerable and open to the influence of a man she met on a dating app at the age of 15.
I am surprised there was no psychiatric assessment?
I hope she receives the help she needs in prison.

But why turn to neo-Nazi ideology and hate Kurds?

twaddle Sat 16-May-26 09:08:30

It doesn't bear thinking about, does it? I really can understand why some people react if they've (for example) been treated badly or had a negative experience of "others", but it doesn't seem this is the case. Something in her mind has been triggered, but I just can't imagine what.

keepingquiet Sat 16-May-26 09:07:01

Interesting. Both her parents were teachers but they were homeless? There is a story to be told there.
This young woman was clealy vulnerable and open to the influence of a man she met on a dating app at the age of 15.
I am surprised there was no psychiatric assessment?
I hope she receives the help she needs in prison.

Chocolatelovinggran Sat 16-May-26 08:50:13

That makes for terrible reading, doesn't it, twaddle. I wonder how she presented in school, or at home?
She is a danger to others and I wonder if incarceration will change her mindset, or simply put her back on the streets older and stronger after she has served her sentence.

twaddle Sat 16-May-26 06:45:48

What on earth was it which influenced this girl to turn into a neo-Nazi? I really don't understand how a 19 year old can have so much hatred.

www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/15/neo-nazi-obsessed-teen-jailed-for-trying-to-kill-kurdish-man-in-bristol-with-axe