Three Pakistani-origin Muslims accused of plotting to carry out a beheading in Britain were inspired by a fatwa issued by the ISIS, a UK court was told on Monday as they went on trial. london-based Nadir Ali Syed, Yousaf Shah Syed, and Haseeb Hamayoon, all in their twenties, deny charges of preparing an act of terrorism using knives. The plot was targeted at Remembrance Sunday events in November 2014, held across Britain and Northern Ireland every year to mark contributions of British and Commonwealth soldiers in the two World Wars.
“All three defendants were demonstrating their support for ISIS and acts of terrorism in general, and were interested in knives and killings by beheading.
“All three were ready, we say, for the important ISIS fatwa exhorting and encouraging such murders,” the prosecution claimed as the terror trial opened at Woolwich Crown Court on Monday.