Moment a would-be suicide bomber was seized by detectives
A WAREHOUSE worker who wanted to carry out a terror attack in the UK was arrested days before he planned to travel to Syria.
Mubashir Jamil told an undercover policeman he wanted to wear a suicide vest and ‘press the button’, the Old Bailey heard yesterday.
He filled out an IS application form and offered to blow himself up to bring the ‘taste of immense pain’ to innocent people on British soil following the terror attacks in Paris and Belgium.
Police headcam footage shows the moment officers charged into his house shouting ‘stay where you are’ and put him in handcuffs just days before he was due to fly to Turkey with Hawaiian shirts and £2,000 cash.
But Jamil, 22, from Luton, denied preparing acts of terror, saying he was hearing voices and wanted to go to Syria to be exorcised of the ‘jinns’ [spirits] that were plaguing him. An Old Bailey jury deliberated for a day but found Jamil, who suffered from periods of mental illness, guilty following a retrial.
The court had heard how the avid computer gamer became obsessed with ‘martyrdom’ after surfing the web for IS propaganda. He was snared in encrypted chat with an undercover officer and counter- terrorist officers swooped to arrest him days before his flight in April last year.
Jamil had told the undercover officer if he ‘put an explosive belt on me... I can do something in the UK even tomorrow after I find a good target.’ Sentencing was adjourned until next month. The judge will then decide if Jamil, who worked in an Amazon warehouse, receives a custodial sentence or a hospital order.