By Eric King-
Oxford Circus was the target of a terrorist attack it has been revealed, after a man pleaded guilty to plotting a terror attack there, and raising money for terrorism.
Lewis Ludlow, 26, from kent was forced to admit guilt because eof the overwhelming evidence against him. On 16 March, Ludlow went online to establish whether there was a police station on Oxford Street, before setting out to take pictures of the shopping area. He went as far as taking a picture near to the Oxford Circus Tube station and then a second one outside the Disney store.
When Ludlow was arrested in 2015,Cops found Islamic State group material on his electronic devices when he was arrested in 2015, but police took no further action was taken.He planned to hire a van and hit pedestrians and also targeted Madame Tussauds and St Paul’s Cathedral, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said. Ludlow will be sentenced on 2 November.
Ludlow, who also used the name Ali Hussain, had hoped to kill up to 100 people. The evil monster had been under 24-hour armed police surveillance, and used an Alius Ali Hussain. He had planned to kill up to 100 people. Ludlow, from Rochester, Kent, first came to the attention of police in 2010 when he attended a demonstration led by radical preacher Anjem Choudary and his banned Al-Muhajiroun group.
January, Ludlow bought a ticket to fly to the Philippines but he was stopped at the airport and his passport seized.He claimed he was going to the country as a sex tourist but was found to have been in communication with a man named Abu Yaqeen in an area with a significant IS presence.In March, Ludlow sent him money via PayPal and created the Facebook account Antique Collections, which he was alleged to have used as a front to send money to south-east Asia for terrorism.
On 16 March, Ludlow went online to establish whether there was a police station on Oxford Street, before setting out to take pictures of the shopping area.
He took a picture near to the Oxford Circus Tube station and then a second one outside the Disney store.
When Ludlow was arrested in 2015, Islamic State group material was found on his electronic devices but no further action was taken.
He had also been in contact with Junaid Hussain, an IS fighter from the UK who was killed in drone strike in 2016, the prosecution said.
Police also observed Ludlow at Al-Muhajiroun group demonstrations, where he was seen with, or near, Anjem Choudary and Lee Rigby’s killer Michael Adebowale.
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