Man plotted attacks on Buckingham Palace and Elton John concert

  27 April 2017    Read: 2521
Man plotted attacks on Buckingham Palace and Elton John concert
A teenager has admitting plotting to bomb targets in London, having researched potential targets including Buckingham Palace and an Elton John concert.
Haroon Syed, 19, pleaded guilty on Thursday at the Old Bailey. Syed was “researching, planning and attempting to source” materials for homemade explosive devices for use in the UK.

Syed, from Hounslow in west London, will be sentenced at a later date. He pleaded guilty to a plot running from April to September 2016 to get materials for a bomb to stage attacks.

The judge warned him this was “a grave offence, and he would consider if a life sentence was merited”.

Syed’s brother, Nadir Syed, 24, was last year convicted and jailed for life for plotting to behead a poppy-seller or police community support officer on Remembrance Sunday.

The Elton John concert researched by the teenager fell on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the United States.

He was arrested in September 2016 and when detained by officers said “alright”. He told an undercover officer of his desire to get bomb-making material and was inspired by Islamic State.

/Guardian/

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