Day: September 1, 2018

    An Isis fanatic who plotted to bomb Downing Street and behead Theresa May has been jailed for life. Naa’imur Zakariyah Rahman was walking down a London road with what he believed was a pressure cooker bomb and a suicide vest when he was arrested in November. Sentencing the 21-year-old to life imprisonment, Mr Justice Haddon-Cave said that although the devices were fakes provided by the security services, he planned to carry out a major terror attack. The judge said Rahman hoped to kill as many police officers, bystanders and tourists as possible by detonating a bomb at the gates of Downing Street before storming the building to murder the prime minister and blow himself up. Rahman is a very dangerous individual and it is difficult to predict when, if ever, he will ...

    A witness said he heard a young woman screaming during a stabbing on a busy street in a daylight attack. The man, who did not want to be identified, said he saw two men with a blade on Caledonian Road in Islington, north London. Two of them attacked one and basically they got stabbed pretty badly, he added. I thought the woman was just screaming I didn’t realise she was hurt. The victim, in her 20s, is believed to have been stabbed in the chest. Part of the street was in lockdown with cordons in place and traffic diverted following the attack at around 10.20am on Saturday. Piles of clothes could be seen lying on the ground outside a parade of shops and cafes. A man, who has not been identified, has been arrested and is being held by Metropolitan Police officers ...

    A small crowd gathered in Westminster to watch the 29ft blimp take to the skies on Saturday morning. As the inflatable went up, there were chants of higher, higher, higher. Organisers say the stunt has helped them raise £58,000 for an ongoing campaign to remove Mr Khan from his post because they say they blame him personally for a rise in violence in the capital. Under Sadiq Khan, we have seen crime sky rocket to unprecedented levels, a statement on the crowdfunding web page states. People in London don’t feel safe and they aren’t. It comes just a couple of months after the mayor waved through the flying of a blimp of Donald Trump during the US president's to the UK visit. Speaking on Saturday morning, lead organiser Yanny Bruere a 28-year-old sales manager from N...