Terrorist planned to blow up mosque with firework bomb

MORDEN

An anti-Islamic terrorist has admitted planning to blow up a mosque with a home-made bomb to avenge the killing of an eight-year-old girl in the Manchester Arena bombing. Steven Bishop, 41, tampered with fireworks and bought a detonator on the dark web. Bishop was arrested by counter-terror police at his mother’s home in Morden, south London, on 29 October last year after planning to attack a local mosque. He was living at a multi-occupancy address in Thornton Heath, at the…

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