A GREATER Manchester man has received a jail sentence for owning and sharing a terrorist handbook.

Adam Wyatt, aged 48 from Bridgewater Street, Salford, received a sentence of three years and nine months after pleading guilty to terror offences.

He previously admitted to spreading one publication which claimed that, “Britain must atone for its sins in Palestine” and owning booklets called the ‘Mujahedeen Poisons Handbook’ and ‘Advice to Those Who Cannot Leave to Sham’.

He was also found to have made posts of social media claiming that jihad was an obligation for Muslims.

A judge at Manchester Crown Court decided that the man’s actions were intentional rather than reckless.

Mike Abbott, detective inspector for Counter Terrorism Policing North West, said: “Wyatt used social media to air his abhorrent views and encourage terrorist attacks in Britain and across the world.

“Although Wyatt never pursued an attack himself, he was encouraging others and sharing information that could have led to the deaths of others.

“He will now spend the next three years and nine months in prison where he can no longer poison minds and encourage people to kill for his cause.”

Mr Wyatt was charged with nine counts of encouragement of terrorism, five counts of possession of a document or record containing information of a kind likely to be useful to a person preparing or committing an act of terrorism and two counts of dissemination of terrorist publication.