A 20-year-old man from Honiton, Devon, has  been sentenced to five and half years in prison for terrorism offences. 

Tobias Gleed, of no fixed abode, was sentenced at Winchester Crown Court (on 17/04/2025) , following a two-week trial, for:

• four offences of possession of a document of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism contrary to section of the 58 (1) (b) of the Terrorism Act 2000; 

• two offences of distributing terrorist publications contrary to section 2 (2) (e) of the Terrorism Act 2006; 

• two offences of providing a service to others that enabled them to obtain, read or listen to a terrorist publication, contrary to section 2 (2) (d) of the Terrorism Act 2006. 

Gleed was arrested in September 2022 as part of an investigation by Counter Terrorism Policing South West (CTPSW). As part of the investigation, officers seized his digital devices which contained publications of an extreme right wing terrorist nature. Investigators established that this was evidence of his interest in extreme content which he promoted and distributed to others online through messaging applications. 

He was sentenced to five years and six months in prison and will serve two-thirds of it with a further year on licence. He was also given a five-year Serious Crime Prevention Order (SCPO) to be served on release. 

Head of CTPSW, Detective Superintendent Sarah Robbins said: “Gleed represents a threat to our communities and the impact of his offences, including the influence of the content he shared, cannot be underestimated. Such offences have a potentially dangerous, radicalising effect and it’s right he’s been convicted for his activity.”  

“I am thankful that, through the work of our unit, the evidence against Gleed has resulted in this outcome.” 

Devon man jailed for sharing right-wing terrorist content online | Counter Terrorism Policing