Teen jailed for terror grooming

A teenage terrorist has been sentenced to eight years for grooming a young man with learning difficulties to carry out a Lee Rigby copycat killing.

Kazi Islam, aged 19, tried to persuade Harry Thomas, also 19, to buy ingredients for a pipe bomb and to attack one or more soldiers with a kitchen knife or meat cleaver on his command.

He encouraged him to start calling himself Haroon and attempted to radicalise him with stories of innocent children being murdered by military forces.