Gang plotted to behead soldier ‘like a pig’

THE leader of a terrorist cell plotted to kidnap a British Muslim soldier using cocaine as a lure before beheading him “like a pig”, a jury heard yesterday.

Parviz Khan then wanted to send footage of the atrocity to a television station to instil “fear and panic” into Britain’s armed forces, Leicester Crown Court heard.

Khan, a father of three from Foxton Road, Alum Rock, Birmingham, pleaded guilty on January 17 to engaging in conduct with the intention to kidnap and kill the soldier.