Teenage boy with ties to Islamic extremists was convicted Tuesday of planning to bomb a Vienna train station and sentenced to eight months behind bars.
A 14-year-old boy from Austria who downloaded
bomb-making plans onto his Playstation games console was sentenced to a
two-year jail term on Tuesday after pleading guilty to terrorism
charges.
As well as researching how
to build a bomb, the boy made contact with militants supporting the
Islamic State jihadist group in Syria, prosecutors said ahead of the
trial.
Sixteen months of the
sentence were suspended. The boy, a Turkish national, will serve what
remains of the eight-month custodial term in a juvenile detention
centre, a spokeswoman for the regional court in Sankt Poelten said.
He had been briefly placed in investigative custody in October on suspicion of terrorism-related activity, before being conditionally released. He was detained for a second time in January. 
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