Scottish Daily Mail

How he urged accomplice to behead a policeman

- Daily Mail Reporter

SHOCKING evidence of how the Blackburn schoolboy incited an Australian teenager to behead a policeman in Melbourne can be revealed today.

Extracts of conversati­ons the pair had on a secure encrypted app are littered with slang, abbreviate­d text and spelling errors but give a chilling insight into the mind of Britain’s youngest convicted Islamic State terrorist.

During most of the messages, the boy was encouragin­g Sevdet Besim, 18, to attack an officer on Anzac Day. He suggested videotapin­g the attack and sending it to an IS recruiter.

He wrote: ‘You are a lone wolf, a wolf that begs Allah for forgivenes­s a wolf that doesn’t fear blame of the blamers. I’m [sic] I right?’ Besim allegedly replied: ‘Pretty much.’ He told Besim: ‘Im gonna present to you 3 options: knife attack on a police etc; car op on police; gun attack on police’, adding: ‘Police is our target akhi [brother].’

He then told him to get a ‘machetes’ and added: ‘Your [sic] going to sharpen as hard as u can. Then run a police over and decapitate.’

Focusing his argument, the boy gave specific instructio­ns, adding: ‘What is best to do: run cop shank [stab] neck then when all them gun police show up you go and try to attack them, don’t look back expect a bullet inside you…’

The boy also wanted Besim to make a suicide video, instructin­g him: ‘ Akhi [brother] I will need an official vid off you before the attack.

‘I will tell you what to talk about: bayah [swear allegiance], motive for attack, those who stayed behind etc.’

The boy instructed Besim to ‘start dress- ing like a Kuffar’, and asked if he was ‘willing for a bullet to go through you’.

The Blackburn schoolboy also suggested that, before the main plan, Besim attack somebody in their own house and behead them: ‘I suggest you break into somones [sic] house and get your first taste of beheading.’

Besim replies: ‘That’s a little risky dnt u think.’

The boy offered: ‘Not unless its few hours before op. Im talkin a proper lonely person.’

When weapons were discussed, Besim sent the boy a picture of a knife, who seemed to be very impressed with the picture and continued to encourage Besim by saying: ‘Handle is perfect for tearing through throat.

‘Btw don’t underestim­ate de-capitation bro its hard. U gotta be a lion especially that ur doin it in public.’

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