A teenager who became radicalised by Islamist propaganda online has been jailed for life after admitting a plot to carry out a terrorist attack against the British police or a military base.
Matthew King, 19, carried out surveillance at police stations, railway stations and an British Army barracks in London and admitted preparation of terrorist acts, alleged by the prosecution to be related to Islamist beliefs.
At a hearing at the Old Bailey on Friday, the Recorder of London, Judge Mark Lucraft, KC, said he was aware of threats King had made while being held in prison.
Referring to prison intelligence, the judge said, “You’ve made violent threats to kill, behead, and chop up staff, have their loved ones followed home and beheaded, behead an imam and another prisoner.”…