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A Person who plotted to kill the high minister in a suicide attack has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum time period of 30 years.
Naa’imur Zakariyah Rahman, 21, from north London, was convicted final month of preparing acts of terrorism.
Rahman had planned to detonate a bomb on the gates of Downing Street and then kill Theresa May with a knife or gun.
Sentencing him, Mr Justice Haddon-Cave said Rahman “would have performed his assault” had he now not been arrested.
Rahman used to be captured by an undercover operation concerning the Metropolitan Police, MI5 and FBI.
Image copyright Met Police Symbol caption Undercover officers gave Rahman a fake bomb
Rahman’s defence attorney argued he had been brainwashed via his uncle – who was later killed in a drone strike whilst preventing for the Islamic State group in Syria – and said his consumer had now not intended to head through with the plot.
But a probation file learn to the court docket through the judge revealed that Rahman had admitted in prison he might have carried out the assault had he been able to.
Mr Justice Haddon-Cave advised Rahman he might have “quite a few time” to check the Koran in jail, including that Islam was “a religion of peace”.
He brought that Rahman used to be a “very bad person” and it was hard to foretell if he’s going to ever be de-radicalised.
Symbol copyright Met Police Symbol caption The jacket was filled with pretend explosives
All Through his trial, Rahman pleaded guilty to a separate rate of carrying out habits which assisted the preparation of terrorist acts, which associated with a “sponsorship” video he filmed for an affiliate who allegedly desired to join IS in Libya.
In addition to the lifestyles sentence, Rahman was once handed six years in jail for the IS sponsorship video. The sentences will run at the same time as, in place of consecutively.
