ISIS extremist sentenced to life after plotting Lee Rigby-style beheading on Remembrance Sunday
Judge said he can't be released from prison until 'the threat from Islamic terrorists has gone'
AN ISIS-inspired jihadi has been jailed for life for plotting to carry out a Lee Rigby-style beheading around Remembrance Sunday.
Nadir Syed, 23, had targeted a poppy seller before his arrest shortly before Armistice Day in November 2014.
He had sourced a large, sharp kitchen knife after listening to a speech by IS spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, which also urged extremists to target France.
Following a trial at Woolwich Crown Court last year, Syed, from Hounslow, west London, was found guilty of planning a terrorist attack.
Sentencing him at the Old Bailey to a minimum of 15 years, Mr Justice Saunders said: "I am satisfied like the killers of Fusilier Rigby, Nadir Syed followed the precept of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
"In my judgment if he was released from prison he would go and try to carry out what he failed to achieve in this case - he would set out to kill in furtherance of his beliefs."
He added: "The defendant will remain dangerous until the threat from Islamic terrorists has gone."
Until he is safe to return to the community, he will stay behind bars, the judge said.
Syed's cousin Yousaf Syed, 20, of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, and Haseeb Hamayoon, 29, from Hayes, west London, were acquitted of planning terrorist acts following a retrial.
The court heard the Syeds had tried to travel to Syria via Turkey in January 2014, but Nadir was stopped from boarding a plane because he was on bail for a public order offence, while Yousaf went no further than Turkey.
Stuck in Britain, the IS fatwa to inspire supporters to attack the military and police in Western countries gave Nadir the justification for an attack on home soil.
He appeared before magistrates for a public order offence on November 6, and after being handed an Asbo, he walked out of court, watched by undercover police teams.
Cops arrested all three men that day - just three days before Remembrance Sunday and the potential bloodshed.
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