A teenage Muslim convert who wanted to replicate the murder of Lee Rigby has been found guilty of plotting to execute a soldier in London.
Brusthom Ziamani, 19, was arrested as he wandered the streets of the capital with a rucksack containing a large hammer, a 12 inch knife and an Islamic flag.
He was today found guilty of planning to kill a soldier after the court heard he planned to hold up the severed head for a friend to photograph and faces life in jail.
Ziamani born in the UK to Congolese parents had become obsessed with videos about death on Youtube, the court heard and, despite being brought up as a Jehovah's Witness, he had turned to street crime and prostitutes before converting to Islam and falling in with supporters of the radical cleric Anjem Choudary.
In a letter to his parents, found by police, he railed against the West and pledged to burn customers as they drank inside pubs in order to establish the 'Islamic States of Ireland and Britain.'
Ziamani had tried to persuade his 16 year old girlfriend to convert and she told the Old Bailey: 'Towards the end, when it got more intense, he would say he wanted to die a martyr and do things to get to heaven and to please god.'
The girl finished the relationship but Ziamani bombarded her with messages on Whatsapp, telling her: 'I will wipe you out.'
The court had heard that Ziamani had fallen in with the Muslim group al-Muhajiroun - or ALM - who gave him money, clothes and a place to stay after he was kicked out of his home in Camberwell, south London.
He attended their talks in the basement of a halal sweet shop in Whitechapel and bought a black flag to take on their demonstrations, saying 'I'm going to rock it everywhere I go in the Kaffirs' face'.
After just months learning of the Muslim religion, he posted comments on Facebook that he was 'willing to die in the cause of Allah' and saying: 'Sharia law on its way on our streets. We will implement it, it's part of our religion.'
