Damian Woolfenden, 18, from Bury in Greater Manchester, appeared at the Old Bailey via video link from HMP Forest Bank. He admitted 12 charges covering offences between May 2025 and May 2026.
The court heard that Woolfenden posted Brenton Tarrant’s livestream video of the 2019 Christchurch attacks, in which 51 people were killed, onto a self-described “pro-white” platform on 22 July 2025. He also posted the manifesto of Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway in 2011, onto a Telegram group on 7 September 2025.
Woolfenden further admitted possessing on his home computer the manifestos of US white supremacist Payton Gendron and German neo-Nazi Stephan Balliet, who carried out the Halle synagogue shooting in 2019. He possessed documents on firearms and bomb-making.
The teenager published material intended to stir up racial hatred against Jews on X and Telegram, as well as material targeting “foreigners”. Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb said she had seen documents referring to Woolfenden’s hatred 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 using firearms and was “waiting until the outcome of elections in 2028”.
Woolfenden, who had no previous convictions, was remanded into custody to be sentenced at Manchester Crown Court on 4 December.
He admitted five counts of possessing documents likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism, two counts of disseminating the contents of a terrorist publication, three counts of publishing written material stirring up racial hatred, one count of stirring up religious hatred, and one count of stirring up hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation.