A West London mother has been sentenced to life in prison for her plot to blow up St. Paul’s Cathedral during Easter.
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Safiyya Shaikh.
A West London mother has been sentenced to life in prison for her plot to blow up St. Paul’s Cathedral during Easter.
Safiyya Shaikh, a 36-year-old from Hayes in West London, U. K., has been sentenced to life imprisonment, with the judge ruling she should serve a minimum of 14 years.
Shaikh planned to “blow up St Paul’s Cathedral during Easter celebrations,” and “to plant a bomb in a nearby hotel and then blow herself up in a suicide attack on the London Underground,” Sky News said.
Shaik “earlier pleaded guilty to planning an attack and disseminating terrorist material,” Sky News reported.
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Here’s the chilling message that was sent to an undercover cop by convicted terrorist Safiyya Shaikh as she stood in St Paul’s Cathedral pic.twitter.com/5deWwpeS4o
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Shaikh was planning her attack utilizing instant messaging. The attack was foiled by police staging an undercover sting.
The BBC said Shaikh is a supporter of ISIS and was under surveillance by MI5 the weeks before her arrest. She was considered highly dangerous and was arrested in October 2019.
