A white supremacist teenager has admitted a string of terror offences, including having a neo-Nazi synagogue gunman’s manifesto and distributing a video of the Christchurch mosque shootings.
Damian Woolfenden, 18, pleaded guilty to 12 charges dating from May 2025 to May 2026 at the Old Bailey on Friday morning via video link from HMP Forest Bank.
Woolfenden, of Bury, Greater Manchester, posted Brenton Tarrant’s live-streamed video of the 2019 Christchurch killings of 51 people at two mosques in New Zealand, onto a self-described “pro-white” platform on July 22, 2025.
The 18-year-old also posted the manifesto of far-right terrorist Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in two attacks in Norway in 2011, onto a Telegram group on September 7, 2025.
He admitted having on his home computer the manifesto of US white supremacist gunman Payton Gendron and the manifesto of German neo-Nazi Stephan Balliet, who carried out the Halle synagogue mass shooting in 2019.
Woolfenden further admitted possessing documents on firearms and making bombs.
He also published material intending to stir up racial hatred against Jews in posts made on X and on Telegram, as well as material intended to stir up racial hatred against “foreigners”.
At a hearing at the Old Bailey on Friday, Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb said she had seen documents referring to Woolfenden’s hatred of a number of groups on the grounds of “white racial superiority”.
The court heard that documents suggested Woolfenden had written his own “personal manifesto” to carry out an attack himself using firearms and was “waiting until the outcome of elections in 2028”.
The US Presidential election is scheduled for November 7, 2028, and the next London mayoral election is scheduled to be held on May 4 of that year.
Woolfenden, who has no previous convictions, was remanded into custody to be sentenced at Manchester Crown Court on December 4.
He admitted five counts of possessing documents likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism, as well as two counts of disseminating the contents of a terrorist publication.
He also admitted three counts of publishing written material stirring up racial hatred, one count of publishing written material stirring up religious hatred, and one count of publishing written material stirring up hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation.
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