15-yr-old UK boy gets life sentence for terror plot
Saturday, 03/10/2015
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LONDON: In one of the first convictions of its kind, a British teenager, who hatched an Islamic State-inspired terror plot to behead police officers at a parade in Australia, has been sentenced to life.
The unnamed 15-year-old, will serve at least five years in jail for inciting terrorism. Manchester Crown court justice Saunders said: “Thanks to the intervention of the police in this country and in Australia, that attack and the deaths which were intended to follow never happened.
The plot intended to murder a number of police officers at the Anzac Day parade in Melbourne, held on April 25 each year to commemorate the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps’ in the World War One battle of Gallipoli.
