(BBC) A former restaurant owner accused of plotting a terror atrocity against Jews has denied he is a “shameless liar.”
Walid Saadaoui, 38, is said to have wanted to cause “untold harm” and kill as many people as he could in a gun attack in Manchester.
The defendant is alleged to have planned to target a mass gathering of Jews in the city but unknowingly laid bare his plot to an undercover operative.
Mr Saadaoui, of Wigan, has told Preston Crown Court he was “playing along” with the operative he believed to be a supporter of the so-called Islamic State and a Syrian man, who he said had threatened him, and he intended to sabotage any plot by eventually calling police.
