Neo-Nazi terror offender ordered to read Jane Austen as punishment Neo-Nazi and recently convicted terrorist Ben John was ordered to read classic literature works like Jane Austen as punishment, despite prosecutors pushing for a harsher sentence. John, 22, downloaded nearly 68,000 files of white supremacist media as well as bomb-making instructions. But a British royal court in Leicester slapped him with more reading homework in August last year, sentencing the burgeoning right-wing radical to a lesson in the language arts rather than incarceration. Judge Timothy Spencer ordered John to read several literary classics, including Austen’s “Price and Prejudice,” William Shakespeare’s...