Teenage Islamist believed Bin Laden was a ‘great man’

A teenage Islamist who discussed torturing and killing a British soldier while planning a terror attack on British soil is facing jail today (fri). Matthew King, 19, converted to Islam from his bedroom and self-radicalised online during the Covid-19 lockdown. He filmed Stratford police station in east London, the nearby magistrates’ court, a British Army barracks and captioned the footage ‘target acquired’. His online girlfriend joked with him about taking ‘Insta pics’ with the severed heads of American and British…