England’s Old Bailey central
criminal court in London on Tuesday heard how an extremist plotted a suicide
attack on British Prime Minister Theresa May.
Naa’imur Zakariyah Rahman, 20,
allegedly wanted to make “big news” by storming Downing Street as May spoke
outside her office.
Rahman, who said he was fully
prepared to die in the attack, was arrested in November last year.
“Before his arrest prevented it,
he was, he believed, just days away from his objective, which was no less than
a suicide attack, by blade and explosion, on Downing Street and, if he could,
upon the Prime Minister Theresa May herself,” Guardian quoted prosecutor Mark
Heywood as saying.
In a chat with an undercover
security service agent on the Telegram messaging app, Rahman said: “I want to
do a suicide bomb on parliament. I want to attempt to kill Theresa May.”
“My objective is to take out my
target. Nothing less than the death of the leaders of parliament.”
He told an undercover police
officer that he would make a “10-second sprint” for the door of 10 Downing
Street, with his main objective to “take her head off”.
The defendant is also accused of
helping his friend Mohammad Aqib Imran, 22, join the Islamic State jihadist
group in Syria by recording a sponsorship video.
Heywood said the two men shared
the “warped ideology” of Islamic State.
Rahman denied two counts of
preparing terrorist acts.
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