
Nick Ferrari 7am - 10am
25 April 2025, 15:55
A man was found to possess a bomb-making guide and other extreme right-wing terrorism documents when police searched his home for indecent images of children.
Vitor Dias, 21, admitted to possessing these materials after officers discovered them when raiding his home in Willesden, north-west London, on May 17, 2022.
The search was carried out as part of a Met investigation into indecent images of children being posted online.
Two mobile phones were seized from the scene and their contents were downloaded and analysed, whilst a large amount of right-wing terrorist information was also collected.
These included guides on how to make explosives, firearms and ammunition.
On Thursday, a judge at the Old Bailey sentenced Dias to a total of three years in jail and gave him a 10-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
Commander Dominic Murphy, head of the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command, said: “This case demonstrates that we will arrest and prosecute anyone accessing terrorist material.
“I am grateful to the work of colleagues in the Wembley Online Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation unit who uncovered Dias’s offending after his phones were seized.
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“This case was also a successful example of the use of risk management software installed on the devices of those convicted of sexual offences.
“This case demonstrates that units from across the Met are committed to safeguarding vulnerable victims and specialist resources from counter terrorism will support the excellent work of officers and staff. Their excellent work allowed my officers to uncover the threat Dias posed.”
Dias was not arrested at the time of the raid, but would be on September 8, 2022, and charged on October 3, 2023, with four counts of possessing a document containing information useful for a terrorist purposes.
He pleaded guilty to the charges at the Old Bailey on August 5, 2024.
Dias was also charged with two counts of possessing an extreme pornographic image, one count of making an indecent photograph of a child, category B, and one count of making an indecent photograph of a child category C.
Appearing at Willesden Magistrates’ Court on December 17, 2024, Dias pleaded guilty to the first three charges.
The making indecent images of a child, category C, will remain on file.
On March 31, 2023, Dias was convicted on 31 March 2023 for the making of indecent images of children, and possession of prohibited images of children.
He was placed on the Sex Offenders Register for five years and was managed by Wembley Jigsaw Unit.
As part of his conviction he was also given a Sexual Harm Prevention Order lasting for five years, which meant he had various prohibitions placed upon him, including risk management software to be installed on his electronic devices.