‘I became a terrorist because the police ruined my life’

A postie who planned terror attacks on Oxford Street and Madam Tussaud’s was acting in revenge because the police were ‘stopping him from having a happy life,’ a court heard. Lewis Ludlow, 27 researched van hire and conducted reconnaissance on busy London targets intending to kill at least 100 people. He was arrested at Heathrow airport last April trying to travel to a known terrorist hotspot in the Philippines. At the time, he was contact with a man named Abu…