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| Man guilty of IS-inspired knife plan | Man guilty of IS-inspired knife plan |
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| A man has been convicted of preparing to carry out a knife attack in London, inspired by so-called Islamic State. | A man has been convicted of preparing to carry out a knife attack in London, inspired by so-called Islamic State. |
| Nadir Syed, 22, from Southall in west London, was arrested hours after buying a chef's knife in November 2014, days before Remembrance Sunday. | Nadir Syed, 22, from Southall in west London, was arrested hours after buying a chef's knife in November 2014, days before Remembrance Sunday. |
| Woolwich Crown Court heard how he had been inspired by IS leaders urging attacks on Western targets, including police and soldiers. | Woolwich Crown Court heard how he had been inspired by IS leaders urging attacks on Western targets, including police and soldiers. |
| The jury could not reach verdicts on two other men on trial. | The jury could not reach verdicts on two other men on trial. |
| Haseeb Hamayoon, 29, from Hayes, west London and Yousaf Syed, 20, from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, denied planning acts of terrorism. They will be retried. | Haseeb Hamayoon, 29, from Hayes, west London and Yousaf Syed, 20, from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, denied planning acts of terrorism. They will be retried. |
| Syria attempt | |
| The jury returned a majority verdict on Syed after more than 50 hours' deliberation. | The jury returned a majority verdict on Syed after more than 50 hours' deliberation. |
| The court heard how he had expressed admiration for the killers of soldier Lee Rigby and how he shared violent footage of beheadings from Syria and Iraq on social media. | The court heard how he had expressed admiration for the killers of soldier Lee Rigby and how he shared violent footage of beheadings from Syria and Iraq on social media. |
| Some of his conversations were made on encrypted applications, the jury was told. | Some of his conversations were made on encrypted applications, the jury was told. |
| Syed had also tried to travel to Syria to fight with IS militants but had been stopped from leaving the country in January 2014, the court heard. | Syed had also tried to travel to Syria to fight with IS militants but had been stopped from leaving the country in January 2014, the court heard. |
| In September 2014, IS militants issued a fatwa or decree calling on its followers in the West to carry out attacks at home, jurors were told. | |
| 'Stamped on poppy' | |
| In the weeks that followed, Syed's behaviour became increasingly worrying to MI5 and police intelligence officers that were watching him. | |
| The court also heard how Syed had appeared in a video in which he stamped on a poppy and kicked it towards a drain, which prosecutor Max Hill QC said was demonstrative of his "attitude to the poppy as the remembrance image in this country". | |
| By November last year he was actively searching for knives of "sufficient quality to source an attack", the court heard, and he was eventually arrested on 6 November shortly after buying a 30cm chef's knife. | |
| He will be sentenced at a later date. |