Al-Qaeda manuals available on eBay after Southport killer found in possession of sick book

The terrorist manual that pleaded guilty to owning is available to purchase on eBay.

‘Al Qaeda Training Manual: Military Studies in the Jihad Against the Tyrants’ can be bought on the online auction for £27.29, or £24.56 with a coupon.

According to the site, there are ten copies of the book available and one has been bought.

On Monday, Rudakubana pleaded guilty to owning a digital copy of the book, as well as to the murder of three little girls, and the attempted murder of eight other kids and two adults.

He carried out his horrific attack as his victims were in the Merseyside town.

The book outlines methods of assassination, espionage, covert communications and how to avoid being captured by authorities.

One chapter specifically instructs readers on how to create deadly poisons; Rudakubana was found with the lethal poison ricin.

The Crown Prosecution Service said the terror training manual was “likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism and was contrary to ‘Section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000′”.

The Telegraph revealed that Waterstones was also stocking the book, although it has since been removed from the site.

Waterstones priced the hardback version of the book £31.99 and a paperback version at £19.95.

A spokesman said: “Despite the best efforts of those who manage the catalogues and those who supply books, including ourselves, objectionable titles from time to time are listed.

“With many millions of new titles published each year and the potential for malign intent of some participants, although very rarely, this does happen.

“When we become aware of objectionable titles, we remove them from our catalogue while we investigate them and notify our cataloguing and trading partners.

“We also examine our filters to improve these to limit as far as is possible [for] such instances in the future.”