Neo-nazi satanist jailed for encouraging girls to kill themselves
A satanic neo-Nazi has been jailed for six years for encouraging girls to kill themselves and self-harm.
Cameron Finnigan, 19, joined a satanic extremist group known as 764 in late 2023 and encouraged a girl to hang herself ‘for me’ so he could share footage of it in a group chat.
He was arrested in March 2024 and pleaded guilty to encouraging suicide, possessing terrorist documents and having indecent images of children.
The 764 group has links to the Order of Nine Angles, a Nazi occultist group linked to a series of crimes.
Finnigan, who also suffered with a number of mental health problems, communicated with other 764 members on the Telegram, Discord and Snapchat apps.
One of his usernames was ACID and he used a Pin code of 1969, the date the Satanic Bible was first published.
He chatted to an individual believed to be a young girl who told him she was considering suicide.
Finnigan encouraged her to hang herself using a rope and wanted her to stream it online so he could claim it for 764, the Old Bailey was told.
Prosecutor Bill Emlyn Jones KC said Finnigan, who was said to be autistic and lived with his adoptive mother, father and biological sister in Horsham, West Sussex, became involved with 764 in October or November 2023.
The judge also heard that Finnegan told the group he was planning to kill a homeless person living in a tent near his home as part of a ‘terror week’ advertised bythe group which encouraged members to engage in a ‘campaign of violence’.
Police never found evidence of an attempt to kill the victim, but a picture of the tent was found in the chat alongside a message from the defendant that said, ‘I’m waiting’.
Finnigan also accessed an 11-page terrorist document which provided advice on how to carry out ‘truck attacks’, giving instructions on the type of vehicle and ideal targets.
He was arrested last March on suspicion of threats to kill and possession of a firearm, although despite claims made to 764 members online, there was no evidence that he ever had a gun.
Searches of his home address revealed a large tapestry of the ‘Satanic Beast’ in his bedroom, knives, swastikas, and pentagrams associated with satanism.
A punchbag with a number of slash and stab marks was found outside his bedroom, the court was told.
Indecent images of children were found on his electronic devices as well as material bearing the 764 logo depicting murder, mutilation, rape and interference with a foetus.
The defendant had filmed himself carving words on to a car bonnet and puncturing the tyres with a large kitchen knife.
When asked during a police interview about encouraging the girl to kill herself, Finnigan said his only concern was ‘if she went through with it and I got caught’.
When asked if he would have been concerned about ‘whether she was dead or not’, he responded: ‘I don’t think about stuff in that moment.’
The court also heard that he told police he felt ‘pretty confident that (she) would not commit suicide’.
Sentencing, Mr Justice Jay shared a psychological report which diagnosed Finnigan with a number of mental health issues but added they did not believe he exhibited core features of autistic spectrum disorder (ASD).
The judge handed Finnigan a sentence of six years in jail with an extended licence period of three years.
He added: ‘According to the pre-sentence report, the risk you pose is both indiscriminate and unpredictable, and I agree with that assessment.
‘I also wholly endorse the overarching assessment that you pose a high risk of serious harm to the public, including children.’
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