Essex teenager who plotted terror attack targeting soldiers and police jailed for at least six years
Commander Murphy added: “The speed of King starting his journey of radicalisation to being almost ready to carry out an attack is concerning and shows the challenge we have in having to respond to these threats.”He’d been kicked out of school at one point and moved into a pupil referral unit after a fight and had moved around schools quite a bit.
Officers say King was in regular contact with a female friend on Snapchat and in conversations with her had revealed plans to travel to Syria, to become a martyr and expressed a desire to torture and kill an American or British soldier.A backpack was recovered after his arrest which was packed with a balaclava and ISIS flag, as well as hunting goggles, gloves and a jacket King had bought from an Army surplus store.
And it was this that Commander Murphy said was key to them stepping in before an attack was carried out.
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