A self-styled “Anglo Jihadi” has been found guilty of planning a terror attack.
Muslim convert Jordan Richardson, 21, of Oliver Close, Howden, East Yorkshire, was planning an “atrocity”, with possible targets including Meadowhall shopping centre, near Sheffield, a trial at Leeds Crown Court heard. He also “regularly expressed a wish to kill Jews” and joked about going into a synagogue wearing a suicide vest, prosecutors said.
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Source: BBC News
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