The court heard King had also done web searches for terrorist killers including the Manchester Arena bomber and Jihadi John. The teenager sought advice on social media about the best route to cross the border into Syria and searched for IS tactical training videos in the use of knives. King had also expressed a desire to travel to Syria to join the so-called Islamic State group. Some of his videos were overlaid with Islamic chants and he posted on Snapchat: “Target acquired.” King made surveillance videos as he studied potential targets including at Stratford Army barracks, police officers outside Stratford Magistrates’ Court and at the railway station. Payout for victim of sadistic carer who made children drink bleach Mr King asked her if she liked his clothes.” Mr Jarvis said: “Mr King’s younger sister told the police that one day her brother had entered her bedroom dressed in combat clothing and goggles. Meanwhile, King had set up an online account with the retailer Knife Warehouse and bought “tactical gloves” and goggles. Miss A later talked about torturing, mutilating and beheading a soldier and then cutting up the body parts, the court was told. When Miss A appeared to support and encourage him, King responded: “I guess jihadi love is powerful. He told her: “I just wanna die a martyr.” King also developed an online friendship with a girl, identified as Miss A. Mr Jarvis said King’s activities “strongly indicates” he has an “entrenched Islamist extremist mindset, holds extreme anti-western views and intended to commit terrorist acts both in the UK and abroad”. In 2020, he became interested in Islam and began to attend mosques and watched Muslim videos on YouTube.īy May 2021, his family noticed he had become more extreme and his mother became concerned he was watching material promoting hatred, prosecutor Paul Jarvis said. In his early teens, King had “dabbled with drugs” and was expelled from school after becoming aggressive, eventually leaving education at 16. Mum admits killing her five-week-old son by spiking his baby bottle
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