Terrorist who begged for a bomb belt faces jail

A former straight ‘A’ student who begged Islamic State handlers to give him an explosive belt so he could carry out a suicide attack in the UK is facing jail. Mubashir Jamil, 23, was an avid computer gamer but became an extreme jihadist, obsessed with gruesome execution videos and images of dead jihadi martyrs, after he was radicalised online. The once gifted schoolboy worked in an Amazon warehouse to save up nearly £2,000 and turned to encrypted messaging app Telegram…