An ISIS fanatic has admitted plotting to blow herself up in a suicide bomb attack on St Paul’s Cathedral.
Safiyya Shaikh, born Michelle Ramsden, went on a reconnaissance trip to scope out the London landmark and a hotel. She was arrested after asking an undercover police officer to supply bombs.
At the Old Bailey the Muslim convert admitted preparing an act of terrorism and will be sentenced in May.
Over the two months before her arrest in October 2019, Shaikh built up a relationship with two undercover officers who were posing as a husband and wife extremist team.
She messaged one of them via an encrypted social media app.
I want to kill a lot. I would like to do church… a day like Christmas or Easter good, kill more.
I always send threats. But I want to make threats real.
I would like to do this place for sure.
I would like bomb and shoot ’til death… I really would love to destroy that place and the kaffir [enemies of IS] there.
Shaikh was convert to Islam in 2007 after being impressed by the kindness of her Muslim neighbours but later became isolated and apparently rejected mainstream Islam.
In a police interview Shaikh admitted posting extremist material and plotting a bomb attack, although she said she might not have gone through with it.
In court she pleaded guilty to the preparation of terrorist acts and dissemination of terrorist publications. Sentencing has been deferred for reports until the 11th of May.
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