Norwich: Sejr Forster jailed for terror and child sex offences

Sejr Forster, 26, was arrested at his small, one-bedroom flat in Cardiff Road by counter-terror officers from the Metropolitan Police in May last year.

He was sentenced to four years in prison at a hearing at the Old Bailey this week.

The court heard how the extent of Forster's offending had been uncovered by the raid on his home.

When the arresting officers asked him for his phone, the former City of Norwich School pupil claimed he had lost it at the pub. But further searches found it hidden beneath his mattress.

On it, detectives found an "appalling" library of more than 750 indecent pictures and videos of children aged as young as three.

Cardiff Road, where Forster was arrested last year (Image: Google)

Forster also had manuals downloaded on the device describing how to make explosives.

One, which he had saved as 'b0mb', contained diagrams and instructions for the construction of improvised explosive devices.

Another was called 'The Advanced Anarchist Arsenal: Recipes for improvised incendiaries and explosives' and included recipes for explosive substances.

Another document found at the property was a hard-copy book containing instructions on how to make a DIY gun from a piece of scrap metal.

The walls of the Golden Triangle flat were adorned with an image of Adolf Hitler, a National Front poster, and a sticker for the right-wing punk band Skrewdriver.

A set of antique knives and imitation pistols were also found, along with documents relating to the Blackshirts, the nickname for the British Union of Fascists.

Officers also found images of Forster posing with a Nazi salute.

Dominic Murphy, head of the Met’s Counter Terrorism Unit, said: "Forster built an appalling library of terrorist and child abuse material.

"His stockpile included the most serious types of child abuse images, and detailed bomb-making instructions.

"We also found texts and paraphernalia that highlighted his extreme right wing mindset."

Forster was convicted of three counts of collection of information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism and three counts of making indecent images of children (including categories A, B and C).

He was sentenced to four years in jail and one year on licence. He will remain under a ten-year terrorism notification order and a ten-year sexual harm prevention order once released.

'THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE TERRORIST'

Former pupils at CNS recall that Forster's far-right views were well known among classmates and he was referred to the Home Office's Prevent programme - designed to combat extremism - as a schoolboy.

His trial, earlier this year, was told he joined the banned British terrorist group National Action when he was 13 and that he had shared many of his extremist views online.

In a Facebook post from November 2015, Forster said he had been 'kicked out of college for spreading extremist ideas and recruiting for an extremist organisation and raising racial tensions'.

That same year, he tweeted that then prime minister David Cameron and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn should be hanged as traitors.

Three years later he messaged his girlfriend saying "I'm far-right never far wrong. I can make a fascist out of you yet" and "I don't like to brag but I am the master race after all".

After announcing an intention to join the army, he told Facebook friends he would have to "remove a lot of things" from his account ahead of an interview.

In 2017, he started basic army training but was discharged within weeks because of his extreme rhetoric online.

He had boasted of being an identitarian, a reference to a white nationalist movement, and used the word Übermensch, a term used by the Nazis to express racial superiority, on an Instagram profile.

He also posted a photograph of himself dressed in black, declaring: 'The Blackshirts are back.'