Link: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/aug/13/the-schoolgirl-terrorist-steph-mcgovern-coen-brothers-

A sensitive documentary looking at the complicated case of Rhianan Rudd. Plus: David Olusoga’s back with A House Through Time. Here’s what to watch this evening

10pm, Channel 4What makes a teenage girl threaten to bomb a synagogue? In 2020, Rhianan Rudd, then 15, became the youngest girl to be charged with terror offences in the UK. She took her own life two years later, five months after the charges were dropped. This sensitive documentary hears from her family to learn more about her vulnerable background, mental health issues and how she was groomed online by a neo-Nazi during lockdown – she even used a bobby pin to scratch a swastika on her head. Was her case handled correctly? Hollie Richardson

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Is there need for sensitiveity because she was a groomed white girl compared to the groomed brown girls like Shamima Begum? Whichever way you fall in views for handling children groomed to extremism, we MUST use the same approach for all.

Yes. White = mentally ill victim, brown = horrible terrorist.

Sadly, call too true.