The young girl obsessed with Hitler wanted to blow up Jews

Inspired by the leaders of the ilk of British far-right extremists like Nigel Farage, Tommy Robinson and their American counterparts like Elon Musk, Rhianan Rudd was a victim of grooming by neo-Nazi Far-right American extremists, who had “encouraged her to read some books” about Jewish and black people, Chesterfield Coroner’s Court heard.

A failure by Intelligence services

Rhianan’s mother Emily Carter said in a statement: “My daughter being groomed was huge and I saw Rhianan change. This had a great impact on her and I did all I thought was right by her.

“She was one of the kindest and most loving children I ever had the honour to know.

“I miss her more than life itself, I miss her smile, her laugh, her conversations – I just miss her.”

Rhianan, from Chesterfield in Derbyshire, had been born into a domestic violence relationship, her mother also said.

The Young girl obsessed with Hitler 

The teenager was investigated by authorities after she downloaded a bomb making manual and scratched a swastika mark on to her forehead, and she became the youngest person to be charged with terror offences in the UK, the court heard.

But her charges were dropped five months before her death when evidence emerged she had been exploited.

Would the same have happened if she a Muslim; the lack of expertise and standards demonstrated in this case, demonstrate a failure in intelligence services.  

Rhianan’s death

She died on 19 May 2022 at a children’s home in Nottinghamshire, the inquest was told.

It heard that at the time of her death, the teenager was a looked-after child in the care of the local authority, had autism and self-harmed because she had “too many emotions” and “did not know how to deal with them”.

Shrine in bedroom to Hitler

It was recorded during that month that Rhianan had an “obsession with Hitler”, whom the court heard she had a Shrine in bedroom to Hitler, and was a “Holocaust denier”.

The court was told that WhatsApp messages sent by Rhianan were contained in a student incident statement in September 2020, saying she “wants to kill someone in the school or blow up a Jewish place of worship” and that she “does not care who she kills and nothing matters anymore”.

Also that month, it was recorded she said she had stopped speaking to the American extremist in March but then “seemed to contradict herself”, meaning it was possible they were still communicating, the court heard.

Home searched

Two police officers went to Rhianan’s home address on 9 October 2020 and seized a USB memory stick and a diary from her, where she had a Shrine in bedroom to Hitler, and found PDF files related to bomb making, guerrilla warfare and homemade weapons, were recovered and her diary referenced firearms, the inquest was told.

That month, Counter Terrorism Policing East Midlands shared information with MI5 who opened an investigation into Rhianan, and on 20 October 2020 police decided not to arrest her because it was “believed to risk some impact on her mental health” and “could possibly lead to further self harm and suicide attempts”, the court heard, that assumption on her mental wellbeing was made without direct evaluation or contact with her or her family.

On social media many people have suggested this demonstrates another failure by Intelligence services, not to have the foresight to provide ‘after-action’ or support to vulnerable girl is a systemic failure in intelligence and police services in the UK.