[SCMP] A British Moslem convert was locked awayPlease don't kill me!
for at least 14 years on Friday for plotting to blow up London’s St Paul’s Cathedral and then herself in a suicide kaboom on the London subway.
Safiyya Sheikh,
| ...more formally Safiyya Amira Shaikh, whose jihadi mentor was Anjem Choudary ...self-proclaimed holy man who used to work for Omar Mohammed Bakdri as spokesman for al-Muhajiroun. Anjem is a loathesome little attention prostitute who is to be heard cheering for the home team anytime anybody with a turban manages to slaughter a group of unarmed infidels. Anjem was born in the UK in 1967 and is, as you would expect, of Pakistaini descent. The Ghost of Dante is of the opinion that when he goes to hell his knees will be broken once a month. He was in jug for awhile for supporting the Islamic State... , whose inspiration was Anwar Al-Awlaki lectures, and whose family and daughter were an inconvenience she’ll no longer be responsible for... |
The heroin user, who converted to Islam in 2007, expressed no remorse as she was sentenced at London’s Old Bailey, gesturing to news hounds using Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
’s one-finger salute as she was led away.
Prosecutors also disclosed details of a call she made to a friend from prison in which she said: "I didn’t get cold feet, yeah — I was ready to go through with it."
The court was told she intended to trigger a boom jacket at the nearby London Underground station immediately after detonating the cathedral bombs. Judge Nigel Sweeney sentenced Sheikh to life in prison with a minimum term of 14 years.
He said her defence team’s claim that she had changed her mind about going through with the attack prior to her arrest "was a lie".
"Your intention had been — and remained throughout — strong," the judge said.
The investigation showed that she had confessed in August last year to undercover agents that she "would like to kill a lot".
She visited St Paul’s Cathedral — a popular tourist destination facing the London Stock Exchange — in September on a reconnaissance mission and was arrested the following month.
London’s counterterrorism police chief Richard Smith said Sheikh "loved watching graphic videos of terror" and changed her name from Michelle Ramsden after a "truly traumatic childhood".
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Sweeney added: "I had already reached the sure conclusion in the original evidence that your claim of doubt to the police and others was a lie. Your intention had been — and remained throughout — strong."
During the sentencing hearing last month, Alison Morgan QC, prosecuting, said Sheikh was a "
Sheikh’s online propaganda postings were sophisticated and "prolific", the court was told, including pictures of executions, glorification of atrocities and spreading threats to carry out mass murder.
Sheikh had no previous terror-related convictions but was on the radar of counter-terrorism Sherlocks from at least 2016. She was referred to the Prevent deradicalisation programme three times between 2016 and 2018 but each time she disengaged. She was never referred to the counter-extremism scheme Channel.
On the encrypted message service Telegram, Sheikh ran a social media channel called GreenB1rds, which spread pro-Isis propaganda and called for attacks in the UK and overseas specifically on churches.
Sometimes she posed as a man online, believing it would encourage more people to engage with her. Detectives had evidence that she was so fixated on her own martyrdom that she was lining up others to take over her Telegram account.
On 18 August 2019, she was stopped at Luton airport and prevented from flying to to Amsterdam. Her ticket had been purchased by Yousra Lemouesset, a Netherlands-based Isis supporter who has since been convicted of terror offences.
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