(BBC) A man who retweeted praise of a terrorist on Twitter told a jury he only did it “to have more followers.”
Ajmal Shahpal said he did not believe the killer of a French teacher was “as brave as a lion.”
Prosecutors say he encouraged others to carry out terror attacks and posted an image of a victim’s severed head on his social media account.
The 41-year-old, of Birkin Avenue in Radford, Nottingham, is on trial at Birmingham Crown Court.
He denies two counts of encouraging others to commit, prepare, or instigate acts of terrorism and two alternative charges of the same offence being reckless as to whether such acts would be encouraged.
