The Daily Telegraph

Isil terrorist found guilty of plotting to attack PM at No10

- By Daily Telegraph Reporter

AN Isil terrorist has been found guilty of a plot to behead the Prime Minister in a suicide attack on Downing Street.

Naa’imur Zakariyah Rahman, 20, planned to bomb the gates of 10 Downing Street, kill guards and then attack Theresa May with a knife or gun.

He had pledged allegiance to Isil and collected what he thought was an explosives-packed rucksack when he was arrested last November.

The drifter, originally from Birmingham, thought he was being helped by an Isil handler – when in fact he was talking to undercover officers.

Following an Old Bailey trial, Rahman, from Finchley, north London, was found guilty of preparing acts of terrorism in Britain. During the trial, he admitted helping his friend Mohammed Aqib Imran to join Isil in Libya by recording an Isil sponsorshi­p video.

Imran, 22, from south-east Birmingham, was found guilty of having a terrorist handbook after the jury deliberate­d for 13 hours.

The jury is still deliberati­ng on a charge against Imran of preparing terrorist acts abroad.

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