BRITAIN’S youngest Islamic terror suspect has admitted plotting Lee Rigby-style an attack on police officers in Australia.
The boy was just 14 when he incited an Australian boy, Sevdet Besim, to behead, run over or shoot a police officer on Anzac Day.
He and Besim, 18, had shared thousands of messages online, enthusiastically plotting the IS inspired attack.
At one stage, the boy, from Blackburn, Lancs, told Besim he should get his “first taste of beheading” by breaking into someone’s house and murdering them.
Besim, 18, was arrested by Australian police after Greater Manchester Police revealed the extent of communications between the pair.
The boy, now 15, who cannot be named for legal reasons, today admitted inciting another person to commit a terrorist act.
The bespectacled boy, wearing a grey shirt and tie, was sat alongside his father at Manchester Crown Court as he entered the guilty plea via videolink.
Prosecutor Paul Greaney QC told the court: “This charge represents conduct over a ten-day period in March this year, of inciting an Australian based man to commit an act of terrorism abroad, namely murder a police officer during a parade to commemorate Anzac Day.
“The evidence of the plot derives from literally thousands of instant messages between the defendant and Sevdet Besim, recovered from the defendant’s mobile phone.
“The messages revealed the intention of the plot and the target, along with motivation summarised as support for ISIS and enthusiasm for the attack.”
A trial has been expected to take place next month, but the boy entered a guilty the first of the two charges he was facing.
A second charge involving an alleged plan to behead a ‘loner’ was dropped.
Mr Greaney said: “On March 18, the defendant send Sevdet Besim a message saying: ‘Suggest you break into someone’s house and get your first taste of beheading’”, he said.
“Sevdet Besim said this seemed a little risky.”
Mr Justice Saunders ordered reports before sentencing, saying: “I want to know if there is any indoctrination or belief in this case.
“I want some assessment of that, why and how they have occurred, and what measures can be taken in order to reverse that process.”
He said sentencing would be ‘extremely difficult’ when it takes place on September 3.
The boy was remanded in custody at a youth detention centre until the sentencing hearing, which will take place in Manchester.