Haider Ahmed guilty of hunting knife suicide terror plot

(BBC) A teenage supporter of Islamic State (IS) has been convicted of planning a terror attack with a hunting knife.

Haider Ahmed, 19, from Redhill in Surrey, told contacts he wanted to conduct a suicide mission.

But Kingston Crown Court heard Ahmed’s mother took the knife away from him after finding it in his bag.

Jurors cleared the man who sold him the knife — Imdadul Karim, 24, from Streatham — of arranging property for the purposes of terrorism.

Ahmed was aged 16 and 17 at the time he planned the attack, which was discovered after police arrested him in October 2016 on suspicion of money laundering.

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