Jihadi ‘boasted he was going to kill the Queen’
A CONVICTED terrorist who stabbed two people days after his release from prison wanted to kill the Queen, an inquest heard yesterday.
Sudesh Amman, 20, was shot dead by police after knifing and injuring two bystanders while wearing a fake suicide vest in Streatham, south London, in February 2020.
Amman, who had a “strong loathing towards non-Muslims”, had become more violent at Belmarsh Prison and tried to radicalise other inmates, it was said.
An intelligence report added that he had a “strong desire to go to the afterlife” and “openly shared extremist views and a desire to kill the Queen, become a suicide bomber and join Isis”.
A separate offender assessment found there was a “high risk of serious harm to members of the public due to his promoting of extremist ideas”.
It was also said police and MI5 had considered arresting the terrorist two days before the attack, after surveillance revealed he purchased items that could be used to make a fake suicide vest.
Amman had been jailed for 40 months in 2018 for preparing and engaging in acts of terrorism, and was released on January 23, 2020.
The inquest into his death heard that he was being monitored by police because of his known aspirations to carry out a terror attack.
Amman had associated with highprofile terrorists, including Hashem Abedi, the Manchester Arena bomber’s brother, and Mohiussunnath
Chowdhury, who attacked police with a sword outside Buckingham Palace, it was said.
He was relocated to the prison’s High Security Unit, because he had an “extremist mindset and capacity to radicalise others”.
Amman was the subject of two reports by a prison psychologist in July 2019 and January 2020, which found there was a “risk of him committing an attack, especially an attack with knives”.
He had been under surveillance since his release from prison, which occurred 10 days before the attack, the inquest at the Royal Courts of Justice heard.
A month before his release, a handwritten pledge of allegiance to the leader of Isis was found in his cell, it was said. The inquest continues.