AN Uber driver who plotted a gun and knife rampage at busy London tourist sites has been jailed for 25 years. Mohiussunnath Chowdhury planned to target popular attractions, including Madame Tussaud…
AN Uber driver who plotted a gun and knife rampage at busy London tourist sites has been jailed for 25 years.
But the jury at a separate subsequent trial found him guilty of terror offences in February, little more than a year later. Four covert officers, posing as like-minded extremists, befriended and monitored Chowdhury after he was freed from HMP Belmarsh when jurors cleared him in December 2018 of slashing police with a sword outside the Queen's London home while shouting "Allahu Akbar".
At the sentencing hearing today, prosecutor Duncan Atkinson QC argued that Chowdhury should received a life sentence as a pre-sentence report showed he posed a "significant risk to the public" of causing "serious harm" through potential future offending. He suggested Chowdhury had displayed a "cooling off" in his interactions with undercover officers, and highlighted he had not taken up their offers of opportunities in support of an attack.
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