Teenage terrorist who wanted to kill a soldier starts a life sentence after he was shopped by his mum

A teenage Islamist who discussed torturing and killing a British soldier while planning a terror attack has been jailed for life after he was shopped by his mother. 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…