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| Man convicted of planning Isis-inspired Remembrance Sunday attack | |
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| A British man has been convicted of planning an Islamic State-inspired knife attack on the streets of London around Remembrance Sunday. | A British man has been convicted of planning an Islamic State-inspired knife attack on the streets of London around Remembrance Sunday. |
| Nadir Syed, 22, was convicted after a trial at Woolwich crown court of planning the attack, similar in style to the murder of a British soldier, Lee Rigby. | Nadir Syed, 22, was convicted after a trial at Woolwich crown court of planning the attack, similar in style to the murder of a British soldier, Lee Rigby. |
| The jury was unable to reach verdicts on Haseeb Hamayoon, 28, and Yousaf Syed, 20, and a retrial has been ordered. | The jury was unable to reach verdicts on Haseeb Hamayoon, 28, and Yousaf Syed, 20, and a retrial has been ordered. |
| It can now be reported that Syed had planned to launch the attack in 2014 after listening to a speech by Isis spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, which also urged extremists to target France. | It can now be reported that Syed had planned to launch the attack in 2014 after listening to a speech by Isis spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, which also urged extremists to target France. |
| Dressed in a burgundy sweatshirt and wearing an Islamic skull cap he showed no reaction as he was convicted of preparation of terrorist acts, after 50 hours and 56 minutes of jury deliberations. | Dressed in a burgundy sweatshirt and wearing an Islamic skull cap he showed no reaction as he was convicted of preparation of terrorist acts, after 50 hours and 56 minutes of jury deliberations. |
| Jurors were unable to reach verdicts in the case of Yousaf Syed, 20, and Haseeb Hamayoon, 29. Yousaf Syed from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, and Hamayoon from Hayes, west London, denied planning acts of terrorism. The judge ordered a retrial. | Jurors were unable to reach verdicts in the case of Yousaf Syed, 20, and Haseeb Hamayoon, 29. Yousaf Syed from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, and Hamayoon from Hayes, west London, denied planning acts of terrorism. The judge ordered a retrial. |
| The verdict on Syed was reached on Wednesday last week, but it could not be reported before the judge’s decision to order a new trial of the other two defendants. | |
| Jurors were told Nadir Syed also appeared in a video in which he stamped on a poppy and kicked it towards a drain, in an act supposedly condemning it to hell. | |
| Prosecutor Max Hill QC said the action 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”. | |
| Hill said the timing of this search, in the days before Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day 2014, was “no coincidence”. | |
| Nadir Syed was arrested on 6 November shortly after buying a blade, the court heard. He told police he went to a shop to buy knives for his mother because “she was complaining about the state of the knives in her kitchen”. | |
| Hill said the fatwa that inspired Nadir Syed urged followers to rise up against westerners and “rig the roads with explosives for them. Attack their bases. Raid their homes. Cut off their heads.” | |
| He added: “This fatwa, and the worldwide attacks that followed, inspired the defendant to plan his own attack in this country, emulating the attack on Lee Rigby carried out by Michael Adebolajo, who he considered to be a Mujahid or Islamic fighter.” | |
| Nadir Syed will be sentenced on a date to be confirmed. |