Haroon Syed, 19, was planning a bomb attack on the singer's show in Hyde Park or on Oxford Street, the main shopping street in the English capital. He can be sentenced to life imprisonment.
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A young radical Islamist admitted to a London court on Thursday that he planned a bomb attack on the British capital, which included as possible targets a concert by singer Elton John and the city's main shopping street.
Haroon Syed, 19, of West London, pleaded guilty to the Old Bailey court on charges of "preparing terrorist acts" between April and September 2016.
The young man took both Oxford Street, London's biggest shopping street, and Elton John's show in Hyde Park on Sept. 11, the 15th anniversary of the New York City bombings.
However, he was detained by secret service agents and now faces a possible prison sentence after admitting that he was preparing terrorist acts.
Haroon Syed thought that the person he was chatting with on the Internet was another extremist, but in reality he was an agent of the British security service.
Judge Michael Topolski postponed his sentence for next June 8 in order to obtain a psychiatric report on the young man, who can be sentenced to life imprisonment.
"Syed admitted that he was trying to get a machine gun, pistols, a suicide vest and a bomb," London Metropolitan Police said after his guilty plea.
Regarding the bomb, Syed issued "a special petition that it was full of nails, so it could detonate it in a busy place," he added.
When arrested on September 8, he confessed to police that his cell phone password was ISIS, the Islamic State's (EI) group.
Syed's defense argued in a statement that everything was prepared by radicals on the internet but that he never attempted to carry out an attack. His conversations with the agent were merely a "fantasy to see how far it would go," the note says.
Syed pleaded guilty after failing to get the case dismissed and excluding key evidence from online chatting.
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abril 27, 2017
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