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| IS-inspired Leytonstone Tube attacker Muhiddin Mire jailed | |
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| A man who attacked Tube passengers with a knife in east London has been jailed for life with an eight-and-a-half year minimum term. | A man who attacked Tube passengers with a knife in east London has been jailed for life with an eight-and-a-half year minimum term. |
| Muhiddin Mire, 30, tried to behead Lyle Zimmerman during an attack inspired by so-called Islamic State at Leytonstone station on 5 December last year. | |
| Mr Zimmerman said he was "lucky to survive" the attack. | |
| A man shouted: "You ain't no Muslim, bruv" after Mire said he would "spill blood" for his "Syrian brothers". | |
| The attack was caught on CCTV and mobile phone footage taken by a passer-by who carried on filming as Mire lunged at him. | |
| 'Cutting his throat' | |
| Sentencing him at the Old Bailey, Judge Nicholas Hilliard QC said while he accepted Mire was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia at the time of the offence, he also believed he had been motivated by events in Syria. | |
| He continued: "In other words, because Muslims were being bombed in Syria, he was going to attack civilians here. | |
| "That was designed to intimidate a section of the public, and it was to advance an extreme cause." | |
| Judge Hilliard said Mire's "brazen" actions were " ...an attempt to to kill an innocent member of the public for ideological reasons by cutting his throat in plain sight for maximum impact." |