An 11-year-old boy told the Old Bailey court that he felt like killing Queen Elizabeth II after his teacher at a mosque had shown him Islamic State videos.
Another boy stated that they were told their homes would burn down if they informed their parents or the police about terrorist grooming sessions allegedly run by Umar Ahmed Haque.
Video evidence was played at the Old Bailey, in which one class member from the Mosque on Ripple Road, Barking, East London mentioned, “He was showing us Islamic State videos and how they bomb Europe and how Britain bombs them. He showed us Islamic State are good. He said that when we grow up, we have to fight with the Islamic State and help them stop these bombings. He was trying to make Islamic State a good thing. So you had to be together with the Islamic State. I was panicking kind of inside. I was thinking we should fight against them if they are bombing us and destroying Britain and that's when he showed us the good side of them.”
The boy also mentioned in the video that the videos shown to them at the Mosque featured “real fighting and blood, babies getting killed, babies in hospital.”
The young boy added, “I felt kind of like sad and determined, no offence, but to Kill all the people that were... the Queen sometimes. But at the time I didn't know what was happeneing. I thought [ISIS] were good but I regret that now.”
Umar Ahmed Haque, 25, from East London, has been accused of allegedly researching how to make bombs, and of plotting an attack that targetted London Heathrow Airport, as well as Elizabeth Tower.
Haque denies preparing acts of terrorism between 25th March and 18th May 2017.
The trial continues.
