{UAH} Haroon Syed gets life for plot to bomb Elton John concert

Haroon Syed gets life for plot to bomb Elton John concert

The court hears Syed asked a fake contact to bring him weapons and make a bomb and he was radicalised after his brother's arrest.

19:57, UK,Monday 03 July 2017

Image: Haroon Syed became radicalised after his brother was arrested

Teenager Haroon Syed has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 16 years for plotting to bomb an Elton John concert.

Syed, 19, attempted to get a suicide vest or machine gun and targeted the event in Hyde Park for a possible attack.

The Old Bailey heard he became radicalised after the arrest of his older brother for plotting an Islamic State-inspired attack on Remembrance Day.

Syed, of Hounslow, west London, admitted preparation of terrorist acts between April and September 2016.

Marking Summers QC, defending, said it was a "crude, ill-thought-out" plan made at the behest of others.

Syed had fallen under the influence of members of Al-Muhajiroun (ALM), the banned group linked to jailed preacher Anjem Choudary, the court heard.

He slipped through the net of the Prevent anti-radicalisation team even though he was a danger after his brother's arrest, although his passport was seized in 2015.

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