A man who was stopped at the Syrian border while trying to illegally enter the country has been detained under the Mental Health Act after passengers on a bus heard him talking about plans to behead somebody.
Maboob Yasin, from Walton Street, Heywood, was one of nine people caught trying to enter Syria from Turkey in April last year.
A court heard that after returning to the UK, the defendant, who suffers from a schizo-affective disorder, was arrested after two women complained he was talking loudly on a bus about his plans to behead someone at a rally and the murder of Middleton soldier Lee Rigby.
He was also heard to say it was permissible to rape young girls wearing short skirts under Islamic law.
The incident took place on board a 163 bus between Bury and Heywood on October 15 last year.
