A teenage Muslim convert who wanted to replicate the murder of Lee Rigby had written a letter in which he swore to kill ‘every gay, every Shia’ and to ‘remove soldiers’ heads’ two months before his arrest.
Brusthom Ziamani, 19, was arrested in August last year as he wandered the streets of the capital with a rucksack containing a large hammer, a 12 inch knife and an Islamic flag.
The letter found in Ziamani’s jeans, addressed to his parents, speaks of how he aims to ‘remove British soldiers heads’ and that he plans to ‘kill every gay, every Shia and every lesbian’
A knife was found in his rucksack when he was arrested which police said he planned to use in the attack
He was today found guilty of planning to kill a soldier after the court heard he planned to hold up the severed head for a friend to photograph. He now faces life in jail.
In a letter to his parents, found by police during a separate arrest in a south London flat in June, he railed against the West and wrote about mounting an attack on a British soldier and expressed the desire to die a martyr.Britain.’
Despite the incriminating letter, Ziamani was released, as he denied he was planning a copycat terror atrocity like the murder of Fusilier Rigby.
Born to Congolese parents and raised a Jehovah’s Witness, Ziamani converted in his late teens.
Ziamani had become obsessed with videos about death on Youtube and had turned to street crime and prostitutes before and falling in with supporters of the radical cleric Anjem Choudary, a court heard.
Ziamani had tried to persuade his 16-year-old girlfriend to convert and she told the Old Bailey: ‘Towards the end, when it got more intense, he would say he wanted to die a martyr and do things to get to heaven and to please god.’
The girl finished the relationship but Ziamani bombarded her with messages on Whatsapp, telling her: ‘I will wipe you out.’
The court had heard that Ziamani had fallen in with the Muslim group al-Muhajiroun – or ALM – who gave him money, clothes and a place to stay after he was kicked out of his home in Camberwell, south London.
He attended their talks in the basement of a halal sweet shop in Whitechapel and bought a black flag to take on their demonstrations, saying ‘I’m going to rock it everywhere I go in the Kaffirs’ face’.
After just months learning of the Muslim religion, he posted comments on Facebook that he was ‘willing to die in the cause of Allah’ and saying: ‘Sharia law on its way on our streets. We will implement it, it’s part of our religion.’
He explained his Facebook postings as an attempt to ‘fit in’ with the ALM group, saying: ‘I did not believe it. I wanted to fit in with these people because they were giving me places to stay and they did not like moderate Islam.
Officers swiftly arrested Ziamani and when they interviewed him, their worst fears about his radicalisation appeared to be born out.
He was taken to Walworth police station for questioning where he was asked what he would do if he saw the Prime Minister and he told officers: ‘Obviously cause him harm if he didn’t have any security around him.’
Ziamani added that he felt the killing of Fusilier Lee Rigby was ‘justified’, but he insisted that he was not a threat to soldiers in Britain.
Ziamani said that he supported ISIS because he believed that eventually they would ‘spread across the world and an Islamic state would be formed in every country’ and that he was prepared to take part in bringing that about if it happened in the UK.
The teenager said he would be ‘dragging people from buildings and assisting the Muslim brothers in restoring the caliphate.’
He had two black flags of Islam in his room and told police that he didn’t recognise the laws of other countries because he followed the law of Allah and his moto was ‘democracy is hypocrisy.’
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