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Katie Dickinson

‘Anglo Jihadi’ accused of terror plan ‘not just online fantasist’, trial told

Leeds Crown Court jurors heard Richardson ‘regularly expressed a wish to kill Jews’ and made a joke about going into a synagogue in a suicide vest (Anna Gowthorpe/PA) - (PA Archive)

A self-styled “Anglo Jihadi” accused of planning a terrorist attack was “not just an online fantasist”, prosecutors have told a jury.

Muslim convert Jordan Richardson, 21, is alleged to have been planning an “atrocity”, with possible targets including a shopping centre, after becoming interested in an “extremist, fundamentalist” interpretation of the religion.

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