By SCM REPORTER
A SICKO teenager who stalked schoolgirls after being rejected for a date has admitted hoarding a “terrorist handbook” of bomb-making videos.
Dihan Rahman, 19, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey today after a chilling campaign of harassment against two classmates and a female teacher.
The Southall teen flipped from a spurned suitor into a Nazi-obsessed extremist, even posting a photo of an armed SS soldier as he shadowed his victims online.
Detectives from Counter Terrorism Policing (CTP) swooped on Rahman in March 2024.
When tech experts cracked his encrypted drives, they discovered a digital chamber of horrors including:
Two “how-to” videos giving step-by-step instructions on building deadly bombs.
Terrorist documents hidden on a USB stick.
Indecent images found on his devices.
The court heard how the teen’s descent into darkness began when he tried to date a girl at his school. When she said “no,” Rahman turned into a nightmare stalker.
Despite being slapped with bail conditions to stay away, the obsessed 19-year-old continued to haunt the girls on social media.
In a terrifying escalation, he posted a photo of the school’s prom venue alongside a picture of a Nazi soldier holding a rifle in a forest.
He didn’t stop there. Rahman launched a “malicious” smear campaign against a brave female teacher who reported him to the anti-extremism Prevent programme, even leaking the victims’ details online and claiming they were part of a “conspiracy” against him.
Detective Chief Superintendent Helen Flanagan, Head of Ops for CTP London, praised the “incredible courage” of the victims.
She warned: “This case is yet another example of a growing and concerning trend of young people being drawn into extremist, violent and terrorist ideologies principally from what they are exposed to online.”
She added that police will not hesitate to take action against those targeting women and girls with “sinister” harassment.
Rahman pleaded guilty to three counts of possessing terrorist material, three counts of stalking, and three counts of possessing indecent images.
The schoolboy terror-snob was remanded in custody and will be sentenced at the Old Bailey on May 6.