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Friend of Manchester synagogue attacker jailed over military base terror plot
A "committed jihadist" who planned an attack on a military base with the Manchester synagogue attacker was jailed for at least 17 years.
Mohammad Bashir, 31, drove his friend Jihad Al-Shamie ...on a 10-hour round trip to conduct hostile reconnaissance at the UK's Defence Academy in Shrivenham, Oxfordshire, on 14 August 2025.
Weeks after that journey, Al-Shamie, 35, was shot dead by police after carrying out the Heaton Park Synagogue attack, in which two Jewish men were killed.
Bashir, from Cheetham Hill, was sentenced at Manchester Crown Court after pleading guilty to one count of preparing an act of terrorism.
Sentencing Bashir, Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb told him that by August last year he had become a "firmly committed jihadist".
He and Al-Shamie were "equally engaged" in planning an attack on a British military target "in which you and he expected to kill and be killed", she said.
She rejected his claim to a probation officer that he no longer held extremist views and regretted his actions.
Imposing a life sentence with a minimum term of 17 years - less the time Bashir has spent on remand - the judge said: "I consider you remain dangerous. You have given no grounds that your attitude has really changed at all."
Friend of Manchester synagogue attacker jailed over military base terror plot
A "committed jihadist" who planned an attack on a military base with ...
A "committed jihadist" who planned an attack on a military base with the Manchester synagogue attacker was jailed for at least 17 years.
Mohammad Bashir, 31, drove his friend Jihad Al-Shamie ...on a 10-hour round trip to conduct hostile reconnaissance at the UK's Defence Academy in Shrivenham, Oxfordshire, on 14 August 2025.
Weeks after that journey, Al-Shamie, 35, was shot dead by police after carrying out the Heaton Park Synagogue attack, in which two Jewish men were killed.
Bashir, from Cheetham Hill, was sentenced at Manchester Crown Court after pleading guilty to one count of preparing an act of terrorism.
Sentencing Bashir, Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb told him that by August last year he had become a "firmly committed jihadist".
He and Al-Shamie were "equally engaged" in planning an attack on a British military target "in which you and he expected to kill and be killed", she said.
She rejected his claim to a probation officer that he no longer held extremist views and regretted his actions.
Imposing a life sentence with a minimum term of 17 years - less the time Bashir has spent on remand - the judge said: "I consider you remain dangerous. You have given no grounds that your attitude has really changed at all."
Two hackers who livestreamed themselves carrying out a cyber attack on ...
Two hackers who livestreamed themselves carrying out a cyber attack on Transport For London that forced the organisation to "pull th plug" on its own systems have been jailed.
Thalha Jubair ...and Owen Flowers were both still teenagers when they conducted an “extremely serious hack” into TfL’s online network that could have caused “catastrophic damage” to its systems, between 31 August and 3 September 2024.
The “multi-day intrusion” resulted in all of TfL’s more than 27,000 employees being forced to attend an office in person to reset their passwords.
During a two-day sentencing hearing, prosecutors said the hackers “could have shut out and shut down TfL completely” given that they eventually obtained the “highest privileged access” within the system, referred to as “the keys to the kingdom”.
Woolwich Crown Court on Thursday, Jubair, now 20 and of Bow, east London, and Flowers, 18 and from Walsall, were each jailed for five years and six months.
The judge, Mr Justice Turner, told the pair: “I’m satisfied that your actions were primarily motivated by selfish bravado, heedless of the consequences on others.”
The defendants have been linked to the group known as Scattered Spider, and used that name in communication with each other during the attack, the court heard.
TfL claims that, along with £29m worth of damage caused by disruption to services and operational work, the incident cost £10m in lost income.
Data from the Oyster refund system was accessed, contactless systems were delayed, and applications for Oyster photocards for children and young people were closed down.
Brothers jailed for 1984 murder during violent spree against men they thought were gay
Two brothers were jailed for murdering a civil servant in 1984 during ...
Two brothers were jailed for murdering a civil servant in 1984 during a spree of violence against men they thought were gay.
Michael Stewart, 57, and Anthony Stewart, 60, were convicted ...by an Old Bailey jury of killing Anthony Littler in East Finchley.
The siblings had denied any involvement.
Michael Stewart, the "lookout", was told he will serve a minimum of 10 years in prison, while his elder brother, who the judge said was likely to have delivered the fatal blow, received a minimum term of 15 years.
Mr Littler, 45, was set upon as he walked home in north London.
The civil servant was found dead in an alleyway close to East Finchley Tube station, with no one identified as responsible for his murder at the time.
Judge Mrs Justice Cutts described Mr Littler as a "quiet, kind and gentle man who lived a quiet, decent and honest life".
Passing life sentences on both men, she said: "This was no impulsive attack. I am quite sure that your group was lying in wait in and around the alley for a victim, someone to attack and to rob. This is what I am satisfied you were in the habit of doing.
"You were not planning to rob just anyone. You were targeting a group in particular, and that was homosexual men. You were not just threatening violence, you were perpetrating it."
She added that there was "no evidence" that Mr Littler, who had attended a real ale club meeting on the night of his murder, was gay.
The judge said: "There is no evidence that Mr Littler was homosexual, but he was a lone man in an area you frequented to target homosexual men, and I have no doubt that he was targeted for that reason."
A neo-Nazi who was planning a "mass casualty" gun attack was jailed ...
A neo-Nazi who was planning a "mass casualty" gun attack was jailed for 13-and-a-half years after he was caught in an MI5 sting.
Alfie Coleman was just 19 when he agreed ...to meet an officer in an east London supermarket car park to buy a Makarov semi-automatic pistol, five magazines, and 200 rounds of ammunition, with £3,500 saved from his part-time supermarket job.
Coleman had drawn up a "kill list" of customers and colleagues at the Tesco petrol station where he worked. He branded some staff and shoppers "race traitors" for having partners who were not white, in a list of people who had "upset him", which featured their number plates.
One entry named a checkout worker, whose husband was mixed race, along with the make and colour of her car, and a description of her as having "short blonde hair with bits of pink in it".
Prosecutors said he believed in an extreme right-wing ideology, which included idolising Adolf Hitler and the likes of Thomas Mair, who murdered the MP Jo Cox in a gun and knife attack in 2016.
A Met Police investigation found Coleman began being radicalised online when he was just 14.
Sentencing Coleman at the Old Bailey, judge Richard Marks KC said he must be treated as a "dangerous offender", describing his views as "virulently racist".
He told Coleman: "You maintained that much of what you had said and the virulently racist views which you expressed were no more than intrusive thoughts and did not represent what you believed in real life.
"It was in effect, although you did not use these words, hyperbole, bravado, fantasy, and you never had any intention to carry out an attack."
Counterterrorism officers said Coleman, from the village of Great Notley, in Essex, was trying to buy automatic weapons, which suggested he planned to carry out a mass shooting, with possible targets including mosques.
He had unwittingly been talking to undercover MI5 agents for months on encrypted messaging apps before he was surrounded by officers armed with Tasers in a Morrisons car park in Stratford in September 2023.
Coleman, now 22, previously pleaded guilty to charges of attempting to possess a prohibited firearm and ammunition, as well as 10 counts of possession of material likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism.
He denied he was plotting a terror attack and a jury failed to reach a verdict on that charge after Coleman said he was now "embarrassed" and "cringing" about the views he expressed. But Coleman was later found guilty of preparing acts of terrorism after a retrial.
He was jailed for 13 and a half years, with a further five years on extended licence.
This video has been edited to remove extreme racist language.
Two Romanian nationals were jailed for stabbing a journalist in ...
Two Romanian nationals were jailed for stabbing a journalist in Wimbledon on behalf of the Iranian regime in an attempt to "silence" him.
Their target, Pouria Zeraati, works for the Persian ...language channel Iran International, that is critical of the Iranian government.
Nandito Badea, 21, and George Stana, 25, attacked him in March 2024 as he walked to his car near his home, just around the corner from the All England Lawn Tennis Club.
The knife attack left Mr Zeraati in hospital needing stitches for three stab wounds in his leg.
The court heard Stana had driven the Mazda getaway car. Mr Zeraati said Badea wielded the knife, while a third man, David Andrei, held him while he was being stabbed.
The men then left the UK on a flight to Geneva from Heathrow Airport. Andrei is still in Romania, Badea and Stana were extradited to the UK.
At the Old Bailey, Stana was sentenced to 12 years in prison and Badea to eight, after being convicted last month of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
Sentencing Badea and Stana, Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb said "I am sure that this was an attack for - or for the benefit of - a foreign power."
"The victim Pouria Zeraati was not selected at random."
"He had previously been subject to threats," she said, and there had been posters put up in the Iranian capital Tehran with his photograph and the words "Wanted. Dead or alive".
The judge concluded that Stana knew or should have known that the attack was being carried out on behalf of Iran, but said she was not sure that Badea knew.
A man who threatened to blow up a block of flats in Sheffield city ...
A man who threatened to blow up a block of flats in Sheffield city centre leading to a police siege lasting about 34 hours was jailed for seven years.
Yaqub Younis, ...49, falsely told residents and armed police he had guns and explosives in his flat and would open fire from his balcony at The Gateway on Broad Street.
Following a trial at Sheffield Crown Court, he was found guilty of communicating false information with intent, intentionally or recklessly causing a public nuisance, affray and criminal damage to property.
Sentencing him, the Recorder of Sheffield, Judge Jeremy Richardson KC, told Younis his actions had "caused incalculable harm".
The bomb hoax threat, which Younis made while wanted on recall to prison, triggered an evacuation of about 100 people and brought the city centre to a standstill for nearly 34 hours.
Police attended the building and put a cordon in place, but Younis refused to cooperate and remained in his flat for the entirety of the siege.
During the siege, Younis threw a TV and various household items, some of which were on fire, off his balcony, trashed the interior of his flat and shouted that he had "loads of guns" and up to 20kg of explosives.
Jurors heard his behaviour had been "erratic" and he had requested to speak to a member of parliament, as well as asking for a banana and a mobile phone.
He also claimed that MI5 and the National Crime Agency had been plotting to kill him and that he had believed his life was in danger.
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Section 4a of The Limitation Act 1980 defines the time limit for actions for defamation or malicious falsehood as one year from the date on which the cause of action accrued.
Article 10 of the Human Rights Act 1998 gives the right to freedom of expression. "This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers."
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“Harassment is generally understood to involve improper oppressive and unreasonable conduct that is targeted at an individual and calculated to produce alarm and distress” - Para 38 R v O’Neill [2016] EWCA Crim 92 [2016]
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