A 19-year-old on trial for experimenting with homemade bombs and sharing extreme content online was ‘a big fan of Hitler’, a court heard.

Rex Clark, who is also accused of trying to buy a handgun, spread terrorist materials online, including videos glorifying right-wing terrorist killers Anders Breivik, Brenton Tarrant, and Stephan Balliet.

The ‘avid internet user’, who was between 17 and 18 at the time of the alleged offences, shared his ‘extreme right-wing interests’ with his girlfriend Sofija Vinogradova, prosecutor Louis Mably KC told jurors on Monday.

‘The two of them would discuss their ideology, their ideas, and in this way seemed to spur each other on,’ said Mr Mably, opening the trial at Kingston Crown Court in London..

‘He experimented with making parts of explosive devices –

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