Ottawa youth accused of anti-Jewish terror plot guilty of 2 of 3 charges

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A 15-year-old Ottawa resident, arrested in February 2024, has been found guilty of two out of three charges related to an alleged anti-Jewish terror plot. He was convicted for conspiring to commit murder and seeking to acquire a prohibited firearm but acquitted on another charge involving the exchange of extremist material due to insufficient evidence proving his intent to assist terrorism. Judge Kerry McVey ruled that while the content exchanged was disturbing, there wasn't enough proof beyond reasonable doubt to establish the teen's knowledge of its purpose in supporting a terrorist act.
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A 15-year-old youth from Ottawa who was accused of an anti-Jewish terror plot has been found guilty of two out of three charges. The teen was convicted of conspiring to commit murder and facilitating a terrorist activity by attempting to acquire a prohibited firearm in December 2023. Justice Kerry McVey ruled that the communications between the youth were sincere and not just hypothetical, indicating his seriousness about the conspiracy. However, he was found not guilty on another charge related to exchanging extremist material with an individual who might have been contemplating a terrorist attack. The court concluded there wasn't enough evidence to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the teen knew of this person's intentions for using the shared content in a terrorist context.

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📰 Ottawa Youth Terror Plot Trial
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Topics

Crown Jewish Ottawa anti-Jewish

Subjects

Ottawa ORG · 3× Crown ORG · 1× Jewish NORP · 1× Joseph Tunney PERSON · 1× Kerry McVey PERSON · 1× Kristy Nease PERSON · 1× McVey PERSON · 1× anti-Jewish NORP · 1×

Narrative

He's convicted of committing a terrorist offence by conspiring to commit murder in late 2023 and facilitating a terrorist activity by seeking to acquire a prohibited firearm in December 2023.
framing: assertive · carried by 1 article(s) · first seen 2026-10-16
🔮 The Crown told court they will be seeking an adult sentence.
2026-10-16 · CBC News
Ottawa youth accused of anti-Jewish terror plot guilty of 2 of 3 charges · assertive framing

Claims (13 extracted, 1 hedged)

2nd youth accused of anti-Jewish terror plot guilty of 2 of 3 charges He was 15 when arrested in February 2024 asserted
He → accuse → February
A young person charged as the alleged "co-conspirator" of a planned terrorist attack against Jewish people was found guilty Friday of two of the three charges against him. asserted
person → charge → him
He's convicted of committing a terrorist offence by conspiring to commit murder in late 2023 and facilitating a terrorist activity by seeking to acquire a prohibited firearm in December 2023. asserted
He → convict → December
Justice Kerry McVey told the Ottawa court that she was satisfied that the teen had joined a conspiracy, and that his discussions about obtaining a firearm were sincere. asserted
discussions → tell → firearm
"I find nothing in [the teen's] communications that reasonably suggests he was anything other than serious," she said. uncertain
she → find → communications
He was found not guilty on a different count of facilitating terrorist activity by making available and exchanging instructional material and propaganda in late 2023. asserted
He → find → 2023
McVey said she was not convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that the teen knew the person he was sending "unquestionably disturbing" material to was contemplating a terrorist attack. asserted
he → say → attack
"The issue before me is not whether the content was offensive, alarming, or extremist in nature," she said. asserted
she → say → nature
"The question is whether the Crown has established beyond a reasonable doubt that [the teen] transmitted it for the purpose of assisting a terrorist activit." asserted
teen → establish → activit
The Crown told court they will be seeking an adult sentence. asserted
they → tell → sentence
The Ottawa resident was 15 when he was arrested in February 2024. asserted
he → arrest → February
A second Ottawa teen was found guilty of four charges in April after an unusual one-day trial that preserves his rights to appeal. asserted
that → find → rights
Neither teen's name can be published due to a routine ban preventing the identities of charged youths from becoming public. asserted
name → publish → youths
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