LONDON: A UK court on Friday jailed two men for life for planning a Daesh-inspired gun attack on a Jewish gathering in northern England.
Walid Saadaoui, 38, and Amar Hussein, 52, who were arrested in May 2024, intended to target an antisemitism march in Manchester before killing more Jews in the northern English city.
Police thwarted their plans, hatched between December 2023 and May 2024, after they revealed them to an undercover operative posing as a like-minded extremist who could help import weapons.
A judge at Preston Crown Court sentenced Saadaoui, originally from Tunisia, to serve a minimum of 37 years in custody. Hussein, a Kuwaiti, will serve at least 26 years.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer welcomed the jail terms in the “horrifying case.”
