Teenager who defaced Windrush mural with Nazi symbols unmasked

Racist graffiti on a Windrush mural in Port Talbot (CPS/PA)
Racist graffiti on a Windrush mural in Port Talbot (CPS/PA) / PA Media

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17-year-old who daubed a Windrush mural with Nazi symbols will be named as Aristedes Haynes after an order granting him anonymity was lifted following his sentencing.

The previous RAF cadet from South Wales, who the courtroom heard fantasised about making a gun and killing a schoolboy, admitted a string of terror offences and legal harm in June.

He was sentenced on the Previous Bailey on Thursday to at least one yr and 7 months’ detention and one yr’s prolonged licence.

He was additionally made the topic of a Felony Behaviour Order for 3 years.

A courtroom order granting him anonymity below Part 45 of the Youth Justice and Felony Proof Act 1999 was lifted post-sentencing following an software from the press.

The anonymity order would have expired on Sunday when Haynes turns 18.

{The teenager} confronted eight fees – two of possessing a terrorist doc, three of distributing a terrorist doc and three fees of legal harm.