A nine-year-old boy stood up in class at a school in London and pledged his allegiance to Islamic State after becoming obsessed with watching beheading videos.
The boy, who is now 10 and known only as Haroon, said he became intrigued by the terror group after watching about the Paris attacks on the news.
He told the Today Programme that his obsession grew after he was increasingly isolated by children at school who bullied him and called him a “terrorist”.
After watching videos of people being burned alive and beheaded, he publicly declared his sympathy for IS.
Haroon told the BBC: “I saw on the news the Paris attacks. As soon as that happened I was on the computer.
"I searched up ISIS on Google and it came up to BBC News. I saw that. Then I went down and it went to Channel 4 'Children of the Caliphate' and I was shocked. Then I watched other sites.
"It led me to this one that had brutal executions and them burning people. It just showed them lighting them on fire.
“The people chained up, lighting them on fire and then they burned them.
"The men were walking with their hands behind their back. Then they were hit and told to sit down. Then they cut their heads off."
He said he would spend a lot of time over the weekend watching the footage “'cos everyone was going outside and playing. So when they were all gone and the house was empty, I would go and sit freely in the living room and search up."
After his shocking declaration, the boy, who cannot be identified, was referred to the Government’s Prevent team – an organisation working to de-radicalise at-risk people.
The organisation provided him with a case worker, Mariam, who worked with him for a year to change his perception and intention.
"Mariam told me the repercussions of it and the impact of how it's not good. Like if you keep on watching it you'll be brainwashed and then you or someone will join ISIS and they will be in trouble and you'll go to prison," he said.
"We're not suggesting he would become a terrorist,” said Mariam. "What we are saying is he was vulnerable.
"(He could have gone) on to a chatroom and spoken to someone who's there to radicalise him. Could he have said something out on the street and then someone's walking by who's got an interest and attempts to radicalise him?
"He is a vulnerable young man who's seeing things, forming opinions. How that would have developed without Prevent, we can't predict that.
"We're not saying he's going to take a bomb and blow anyone up. But it's about minimising those risks."
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