‘I was too stoned to bomb St Paul’s’
The first female British jihadi to plot a suicide bombing was too stoned to go through with the attack on St Paul’s Cathedral, a court heard. Safiyya Amira Shaikh, 37, carried out a reconnaissance trip to the City of London to scope out St Paul’s as a potential target while staying in a hotel. The former company director told her friend in a prison call from HMP Bronzefield she was lying when she previously told her lawyers she got cold feet. ‘I…