A teenager from the Isle of Wight, who was detained for seven years after looking up the Isle of Wight Festival as a potential terror attack target, has made a makeshift weapon out of a pair of tweezers while detained.

The youth, now 17, had already admitted to attacking and threatening custody staff with improvised weapons in June 2023 while in custody.

Now, he has admitted a charge of possession of a bladed or sharply pointed article, namely a makeshift weapon using sharpened tweezers, inside a prison, in March 2024.

He was sentenced last week, to a 12 months detention and training order (DTO).

As previously reported, the youth last year smashed a plastic jug and managed to conceal pieces of it, despite being patted down and having his room searched.

He used these shards to threaten and to assault custodial staff, with one worker suffering cuts to their hand, elbow and finger.

He was moved to a detention centre, where he went on to make and use more improvised weapons to assault and threaten custodial staff, between June and December 2023.

On April 15, the boy was sentenced to seven years’ detention, after a trial at Kingston Crown Court found him guilty of terrorism offences.

The court heard the youth, who was 15 at the time, had researched the Isle of Wight festival as a potential terror attack target, looked up weapons, vehicles and stab vests, and obtained a knife by July 2022.

The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had denied three counts of disseminating terrorist publications, engaging in conduct in the preparation of terrorist acts, and possessing a bladed article in a public place, between June 18 and July 11, 2022.

The material he was accused of sending contained links to extremist videos, which included beheadings.

His plans were eventually foiled by the FBI, which alerted UK counter-terror police that a user of the messaging app, Discord, was plotting an attack.

After discarding the festival as a target, because he could not drive, nor had a vehicle, the teenager went on to draw up plans to stab people.

The boy was arrested on July 11, 2022.