Secret terror trial told Blairs’ home was plot target

A British man accused of plotting a terror attack may have targeted former prime minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie, jurors in the partly secret terror trial were told.

Erol Incedal, aged 26, from London, may also have been looking at a “Mumbai-style” atrocity with the use of Kalashnikov rifles, according to coded messages found on his computer, the Old Bailey heard.

The alleged plot was scuppered after police stopped Incedal’s car for a motoring offence and planted a bugging device which picked up snippets of chatter about “bin Laden, fatwa, Syria, and jihad”.