Britain Prime Minister Theresa May / AFP PHOTO / NIKLAS HALLE’N
An extremist who plotted a suicide attack on British Prime Minister Theresa May wanted to decapitate her in a bomb and knife assault, a court heard Tuesday.
Naa’imur Zakariyah Rahman, 20, allegedly wanted to make “big news” by storming Downing Street as May spoke outside her office.
Rahman was fully prepared to die in the attack, England’s Old Bailey central criminal court in London heard.
He was arrested in November last year.
“Before his arrest prevented it, he was, he believed, just days away from his objective, which was no less than a suicide attack, by blade and explosion, on Downing Street and, if he could, upon the Prime Minister Theresa May herself,” said prosecutor Mark Heywood.
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