A teenage Islamic State fanatic who confessed to a plot to attack a police officer or soldier has been jailed for life with a minimum of six years after being reported to police by his mum.
Matthew King, 19, converted to Islam from his bedroom and self-radicalised online during the Covid-19 lockdown.
He expressed a desire to "torture, mutilate and kill military personnel" and the 19-year-old carried out surveillance on police stations, railway stations, magistrates' courts including Stratford in East London, and a British Army barracks.
