Sentencing delayed after Safiyya Amira Shaikh tells friend she wanted to ‘go through with it’
Sentencing of an Islamic State supporter who plotted to blow up St Paul’s Cathedral at Easter has been postponed after she was recorded in a prison phone call saying she had wanted to “go through with it” and had only been delayed because she had been “doing drugs”.
In an unusual delay, an Old Bailey judge was told on Thursday that after Safiyya Amira Shaikh listened to what was said on her behalf in courtroom mitigation last week, she contradicted her lawyers and denied that she had got “cold feet”.
Continue reading…Sentencing delayed after Safiyya Amira Shaikh tells friend she wanted to ‘go through with it’Sentencing of an Islamic State supporter who plotted to blow up St Paul’s Cathedral at Easter has been postponed after she was recorded in a prison phone call saying she had wanted to “go through with it” and had only been delayed because she had been “doing drugs”.In an unusual delay, an Old Bailey judge was told on Thursday that after Safiyya Amira Shaikh listened to what was said on her behalf in courtroom mitigation last week, she contradicted her lawyers and denied that she had got “cold feet”. Continue reading…