Benefits bomber was claiming £1,215 a week in dole

An anti-Islamic terrorist who planned to blow up a mosque could afford to buy sophisticated bomb components because he was receiving up to £1,215 a week in benefits, a court heard Steven Bishop, 41, tampered with fireworks and bought a detonator on the ‘dark web’, to avenge the death of Saffie Rose Roussos, eight, who died at the Ariana Grande concert in 2017. Bishop was arrested by counter-terror police at his mother’s home in Morden, south London, on 29 October…

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