James Walker instructed in Operation Tantic

James Walker instructed in Operation Tantic by Laura Cook of Elliot Mather Solicitors represented Daniel Harris who was charged with 6 counts of encouraging terrorism and a count of possessing an article with intent at Manchester Crown Square.

The defendant relied upon a modern slavery defence insisting he had been groomed despite a negative NRM. The Crown were able to establish links to Payton Gendron, the perpetrator of Buffalo shootings.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/27/uk-teenager-daniel-harris-sentenced-far-right-videos-us-killers

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-64426075

https://news.sky.com/story/daniel-harris-british-teenage-extremist-whose-videos-were-linked-to-two-mass-murders-in-us-jailed-12795052

https://www.itv.com/news/granada/2023-01-27/teen-continued-to-create-radicalising-videos-despite-engaging-with-police

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/british-teenager-made-video-inspired-mass-shootings-america/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11683499/British-neo-Nazi-19-far-right-videos-linked-massacres-jailed-11-years.html

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/teen-who-inspired-buffalo-shooting-killer-faces-extradition-to-the-us-x0lxwd28v