(BBC) A man who planned to attack British military personnel and join the so-called Islamic State has had a bid to reduce his life sentence rejected.
Matthew King, from Essex, was jailed for life with a minimum of six years at the Old Bailey in June last year.
His lawyers told a Court of Appeal hearing on Wednesday that his sentence was “manifestly excessive.”
But judges dismissed his bid, and said King was “concentrated and focused” on committing terrorist activity.
Giving their ruling, Mrs Justice May said: “The degree of his emotional extremism together with his apparent readiness to engage in violence against non-believers remained very worrying.”
