Islamic State fanatic Matthew King has been jailed for life with a minimum term of six years for plotting a terror attack on British police officers or soldiers, after he was filmed scoping out a police and train station.
King, from Wickford in Essex, palsu previously pleaded guilty to preparation of terrorist acts between December 22 2021 and May 17 2022.
The 19-year-old carried out surveillance at police stations, railway stations, a magistrates' court and a British Army barracks, and was just one day away from embarking on a terror attack when he was arrested by police last year.
Footage released by police after the sentencing at the Old Bailey shows King walking past a train station while dressed in a black tracksuit and cap, as well as filming a police officer from behind on a platform.
In mitigation, his barrister Hossein Zahir KC said King was 'immature' and the prospect he would have carried out a terror attack in the UK or travelled to Syria to join the so-called Islamic State was 'remote'.
But Judge Mark Lucraft KC told the 19-year-old he poses a risk to the public, and revealed a phone call made by King to his mother after being arrested in which he claimed to have done 'nothing wrong'.
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