Jake Birchall said he had been jailed for hacking Paypal and others were not 16 at the time of the offense

A "deep background" teenage hacker has avoided prison for his role in planning cyber attacks with the hacker group Anonymous.

Jake Birchall, 18, pleaded guilty to conspiring to impair the operation of computers between 1 August 2010 and 22 January 2011.

Birchall, Chester, remained impassive in the morning of Friday, when he received an order for the rehabilitation of the 18 months and a requirement of 60 hours of unpaid work by Judge Peter Testar to Southwark Crown Court in London.

Testar Birchall said should receive a sentence "substantial" prison for his role in the plot cyber attacks, but was forced to issue a sentence not because Birchall was 16 when was stopped.

The judge said he also took into account pre-trial psychiatric reports, Birchall described as "deep background."

he added. "The fact of the matter is that although he has had and has a disadvantage in life that does not play an important role [in the conspiracy]

"played an important role in this field and I think he must learn to get out of bed in the morning and unpaid work."

The judge declined to elaborate on the earlier statement or psychiatric reports, but said there was a "statement of special needs" and Birchall met the diagnostic criteria for "certain conditions".

"All this adds up to an explanation of why, in the room of a teenager in the dark, have shown that the performance of these crimes," he added.

Joel Smith, prosecutors said in a statement last week that Birchall had bragged in internet chat rooms that have had a major role in the operations anonymous, writes that he was "Anon Plus 2 ".

Birchall said Smith, who used the pseudonym online "Fennic" he wrote in a chat room on the Internet that the police entered the door, "Fuck the police ... I close all ".
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