A close friend of the ringleader of the London Bridge terror attack has been jailed after making Islamic State propaganda videos outside Windsor Castle.
Taha Hussain and another radical extremist filmed themselves making threats and yelling IS slogans in a car outside the castle and at the nearby Coldstream Guards barracks, on the day after the Paris terror attacks in November 2015.
The 21-year-old, who was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison, was close friends with Khuram Butt, the man who led two other terrorists to run over and then stab innocent members of the public on London Bridge and in Borough Market in June. Security sources have told Sky News that had he not been arrested 10 months before London Bridge, it is "perfectly conceivable he'd have gone on to play a part in that attack".
Hussain was also part of prolific terrorist recruiter Anjem Choudary's circle of radicals, and was regularly pictured with other members of the group at protests and rallies.
Choudary is also now in jail, serving five-and-a-half years for encouraging support for IS. Hussain had been sending radical material to Mohammed Sufiyan Choudry, 23, another preacher from Maidenhead, who was jailed earlier this year after talking about trucks full of explosives driving down Oxford Street.
Another recipient, Mohamed Abdulkadir Osman Mayow, 23, a former Asda worker from Hayes, west London, who called himself Abu Zubayr, was jailed for five years and two months in February for spreading terrorist propaganda. His contacts also included Omar Hussain, a Morrison's security guard from High Wycombe, who went on to join IS using the name Abu Saeed al Britanni.
Taha Hussain, from Slough, was found guilty of seven counts of disseminating terrorist publications after a trial at the Old Bailey in July.
