Official TS: Drill rapper admits terrorism chemical offence

(BBC) A drill rapper has pleaded guilty to possessing chemicals for terrorist purposes.

Al-Arfat Hassan bought the chemicals which can be used to make explosives, two knives and a sword and posed with them in a video, talking about looking good for his “final moments.”

The 20-year-old was caught when police stopped him at Heathrow Airport.

A 17-year-old boy from Leeds who Hassan had never met in person admitted possessing a bomb-making video.

Street life

Hassan, from Enfield, north London, is known to drill-music fans as Official TS. His early songs were about violent street life — but in 2021, they changed.

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