Islamist extremist, 19, admits plotting terror attack
Daily MailA teenage extremist has admitted to plotting an Islamist terror to blow up a police station, army barracks or a court. Matthew King, 19, was alleged to have carried out surveillance at police stations, railway stations, a magistrates' court and a British Army barracks. Matthew King, 19, was alleged to have carried out surveillance at police stations, railway stations and an Army barracks Stratford Magistrates' Court was one of the building that King allegedly surveyed while planning an attack His lawyer Hossein Zahir KC said the defence had submitted a basis of plea to the court. Matthew King, 19, from Essex, admitted to preparing a terrorist attack related to his extremist Islamist beliefs King, from Wickford, Essex, was arrested at his home on May 18 by officers from the Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command and his mobile phone was examined. Prosecutors alleged the plot was related to extreme Islamist beliefs and that King carried out surveillance at railway stations, police stations, Stratford Magistrates' Court in east London and an Army barracks in East Ham, also east London.
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