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I suspect the lenient sentence is more down to the fact that the prosecution conceded that there was no evidence that he was a terrorist threat or planning to act on his beliefs, and that he was not part of a wider right wing group. I would have thought that sentencing is roughly aligned with risk factors in cases like these.
Imagine your own lawyers arguing to the court that you had literally no friends and nobody to talk to, not even online.
Edit: Here's the sentencing guidelines for his particular crime (collecting information likely to be useful for preparing a terrorist act) https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/offences/magistrates-court/item/collection-of-terrorist-information/
If you can't be arsed to read, the judge had the option of sentencing him to between "a high level community order" and 2 years custodial, depending on various things explained in that link. In my view , a two year suspended sentence and 2 years on license appears to be right in the middle of available sentences.