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The BBC reports:
Two anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists have been found guilty of offences in connection with a plot to destroy 5G mobile phone masts. Darren Reynolds, of Newbould Crescent, Sheffield, was found guilty of six terror offences at Leeds Crown Court.
Christine Grayson, of Boothwood Road, York, was found guilty of conspiracy to commit criminal damage. Reynolds and Grayson discussed armed uprisings and advocated violence towards MPs, the jury heard. Grayson, 59, discussed “getting rid” of the masts with expanding foam and angle grinders during discussions online.
Reynolds, 60, was found guilty of encouraging terrorism with online comments including calling for MPs to be killed. He was also convicted of disseminating a terrorist publication by sharing a link to a neo-Nazi document.
Sky News reports:
She had taken to visiting chatrooms on the encrypted Telegram app during lockdown where she heard arguments that the world was flat and discussions flourished about vaccines. Her two sons told her to “stop listening to other people, stay away from idiots, just don’t listen”, she told the court.
Reynolds, who ran an online Telegram group called Constitutional Common Law England, told the court he had stopped watching TV and became interested in conspiracy theories after the 9/11 attacks.
He exchanged racist messages on Telegram, claiming Jews were behind mass immigration, calling for their “annihilation”, and saying that Boris Johnson and Michael Gove should be “eliminated”. The pair held racist, antisemitic and anti-authoritarian views which they expressed in extreme terms with discussions about potential armed uprisings and attacks on MPs.
Christine Grayson, 59, a grandmother from York, and Darren Reynolds, 60, a grandfather from Sheffield, believed 5G phone masts were designed to be used as a weapon against members of the public who had received the COVID-19 vaccine https://t.co/ixfek7eCPH
— Sky News (@SkyNews) June 1, 2023