Jihadi’s afterlife list: ‘Meet wives and decorate palace’
Mohiussunnath Chowdhury, the jihadi who was sentenced to life yesterday for planning terror attacks, wrote down plans for when he arrived in heaven as a martyr, including meeting wives and decorating his “main palace”. He pinned to-do lists for the afterlife to his bedroom door while plotting an attack on potential targets that included a gay pride parade and Madame Tussauds.
When police raided his family home, they found training swords and a knife in Chowdhury’s bedroom, alongside documents outlining his plans. One handwritten list stuck on the back of the door was entitled “plans for Jannah”, meaning paradise. Number one on the list was “tour entire property” and “choose main
palace”.
Chowdhury, who had spoken to his sister and undercover police of his struggle to meet a girlfriend, named his second priority as “meet all wives and name and choose main two”. He was then to “decorate main palace”, meet family and friends, feast repeatedly, go to the market, “spend time with wives” and embark on quests. Meeting Allah did not make the list until point number seven.
When asked about the document in court, Chowdhury claimed that he created it while being held in prison on remand for the Buckingham Palace attack. During that period, he met other terrorists including the Parsons Green bomber and drew graphic cartoons of a police officer being murdered outside Number 10 Downing Street and 9/11.
Other notes on Chowdhury’s bedroom wall called on Allah to grant him “the best of shahada”, meaning martyrdom.
In a bugged conversation in his car last April, he told a friend that he wanted to kill soldiers or police officers in the Buckingham Palace attack.
“It’s instant paradise,” Chowdhury had said. “You can do all the prayers and fasting you want … Go out and fight and die in his cause, you go straight to Jannah.”
The court heard that he used a book co-written by the English Defence League (EDL) founder Tommy Robinson and YouTube videos by anti-Muslim activists to claim violent jihad was mandated by the Quran. Chowdhury also viewed videos by Islamist preachers Anwar al-Awlaki and Sheikh Faisal, as well as Isis propaganda, while drawing up his plans.
Days before his arrest in July 2019, he told his sister that he was going to do “another attack”, adding: “I’m serious, bro, it’s about time now.”
Chowdhury denied preparing an act of terrorism, claiming he had made the claims for attention as “jihad banter”, and that the jihad he sought was “in the end times” rather than an attack. But the jury heard how he repeatedly praised other terror attacks and claimed to be radicalising children who came into the peri-peri chicken shop where he worked in Luton, and had engaged in physical training in the months after being acquitted of the Buckingham Palace attack.
He claimed that he had been pressured by undercover police officers, but a jury rejected his explanation and found him guilty of preparing acts of terrorism, disseminating a terrorist publication and possessing terrorist information.