A convicted far-right extremist with links to Satanism has been jailed for 38 months after admitting to making an indecent photograph of a child and breaching strict court orders.
Harry Vaughan, 21, from Twickenham, south-west London, who now goes by the name Harry Blake, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey in June to making an indecent image of a child in September 2022. He also admitted three charges of possessing extreme pornographic videos, three counts of failing to comply with a Serious Crime Prevention Order, and three breaches of his terrorist notification order.
The breaches began just a month after his original sentence in November 2020, when he was given a two-year suspended term for 14 terrorism offences and two counts of making indecent images of children. Those offences included encouraging terrorism, disseminating terrorist publications, and possessing documents useful to terrorism, linked to his activity on the neo-Nazi forum Fascist Forge.
During the earlier trial, the court heard Vaughan had become obsessed with right-wing extremism, Satanism, and violence after falling down an internet 'rabbit hole' aged 14. Police later found thousands of images and files on his devices, including extremist propaganda, footage of the 2019 Christchurch mosque massacre, and an application to join the banned neo-Nazi group System Resistance Network in which he wrote: 'I could handle myself in a fight. There is nothing I wouldn’t do to further the cause.'
Sentencing Vaughan on Thursday, the judge handed him a 38-month jail term and a five-year Serious Crime Prevention Order. Detective Chief Superintendent Gareth Rees of the Met police counter-terrorism command said: 'Blake had been convicted of offences relating to sharing extremist content online, so restrictions were imposed to curb his access to computer systems. His breach of these conditions was extremely serious. Not only had he breached the conditions, but we uncovered that he had also been storing child abuse images. I hope this case sends the message that we closely monitor people who are under terrorism notification and crime prevention orders, and that we will bring them back to court where we’ve found they’ve broken those conditions.'
