Overview
- He entered a plea under the Terrorism Act at Glasgow’s High Court for plotting mass murder at the Inverclyde Muslim Centre in Greenock.
- Police intelligence officers intercepted him on January 23 outside the mosque carrying an airgun, aerosol cans and explosive ingredients.
- He gained the mosque community’s trust by feigning conversion to Islam, sketching interiors and filming reconnaissance videos.
- A home search recovered extremist materials including Mein Kampf, The Anarchist Cookbook, airsoft weapons, knives and bomb-making supplies.
- The 17-year-old, radicalized online since age 13 and diagnosed with autism, remains remanded in a secure unit pending pre-sentencing reports.