Last week UNN’s Oliver Down brought you the story of the homegrown Muslim convert who was planning to blow up St Paul’s cathedral in a plot that would have made her the UK’s first female homegrown suicide bomber.
UNN can reveal that Safiyya Shaikh who is a 37-year-old mother has been jailed for a minimum of 14 years for plotting a terror attack at St Paul’s Cathedral. Ms Shaikh carried out extensive research about how to cause maximum carnage as well as saying she wanted “a lot to die” before being killed herself so that she could reach paradise.
During the sentencing of Ms Shaikh, which gave Shaikh to life in prison with a minimum term of 14 years, Mr Justice Sweeney said: “I had already reached the sure conclusion in the original evidence that your claim of doubt to the police and others was a lie. Your intention had been – and remained throughout – strong”.
Ms Shaikh sat in the dock wearing a black hijab showed little to no emotion as the sentence was handed down. Following the sentencing Commander Richard Smith who is the head of the Metropolitan Police’s Counter Terrorism Command, said: “She loved watching graphic videos of terrorist killings and her mission … was to inspire others to fight, even after she hoped to have died in a suicide attack. She was so serious about her propaganda work, she wanted to ensure it would continue even after she had died. Shaikh was clearly dangerous. She was spreading vile directives for mass murder across the world and also planning her own horrific terrorist attack on UK soil”.
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Current Affairs Correspondent | My name is Oliver Down I am 22, and a staunch brexiteer. I am a Bristolian lad who studied politics in Leicester. I believe in free speech and accurate journalism and I won’t be afraid to give you “the other side” of the story!
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