A man from Southhall, London, has been convicted of plotting a Lee Rigby-style attack on the streets of London in the run-up to Remembrance Sunday last year.
Twenty-two-year-old Nadir Syed was arrested on November 6 last year, hours after buying an 11-inch kitchen knife, a court heard.
Jurors were told that Syed admired the killers of Fusilier Lee Rigby and that he was inspired by Islamic State. Also, he had tried but failed to get to Syria.
He showed no reaction as he was found guilty of preparation of terrorist acts following a trial at Woolwich Crown Court.
The jury was unable to reach verdicts on co-defendents Haseeb Hamayoon, 28, and Yousaf Syed, 20, and a retrial has been ordered.
Prosecutors said Syed was obsessed with beheadings and had been inspired by a fatwa from an IS leader, which urged followers to attack Westerners and “rig the roads with explosives for them. Attack their bases. Raid their homes. Cut off their heads.”
A British Army soldier, Fusilier Lee Rigby of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, was run down with a car and stabbed to death using knives and a cleaver by two British men of Nigerian descent on May 22, 2013. He was killed to avenge the killing of Muslims by British armed forces.
