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Drill rapper dubbed ‘Masked Menance’ jailed for life after plotting terror rampage during first UK lockdown
A JIHADI rapper has been caged for plotting to carry out a murderous terror attack during the first Covid lockdown.
Sahayb Abu, 27, used Covid benefits to buy on an 18-inch sword, body armour, a Persian Qama knife, and a combat hat and gloves.
Terror suspect Sahayb Abu was found guilty of plotting a terror attack[/caption]
His brother Muhamed, was cleared of failing to disclose information about a plot[/caption]
The rapper, who branded himself as ‘The Masked Menace,’ was convicted at the Old Bailey last month of plotting a terrorist act.
He has today been caged for life with a minimum of 19 years.
His older brother Muhamed Munye Abu, 32, wept previously as he was acquitted of failing to disclose Sahayb’s terrorist intentions to authorities.
Sahayb and Muhamed, were jailed for two years after being caught breaking into a jewellery store in February 2018.
No one gives a s**t about a dead cop. That’s all they’re good for…Dying!!
Sahayb Abu
Just weeks after his release in March last year, Sahayb started boasting about launching a terrorist attack after mixing with extremists in jail.
He used his £400 monthly benefits to buy an 18ins Persian Qama sword, a tradesman’s knife, balaclava and camouflage hat, along with a combat vest.
But Sahayb was being tailed in a joint police and MI5 operation set up following his jail release over concerns about his continuing “extremist mindset.”
Alarm bells rang over threats he made online to kill cops and research of prominent London embassies.
Sahayb had used an alias on May 28 to comment on a YouTube video about a police killer in the US.
‘I WOULD WATCH THEM DIE’
He posted: “No one gives a s**t about a dead cop. That’s all they’re good for…Dying!!”
The jihadi also described London mayor Sadiq Khan as a “sell-out” and talked about murdered soldier Lee Rigby.
He said: “I’m trying to see many Lee Rigbys heads rolling on the ground, man I shoot up a crowd cos I’m a night stalker, got my shank got my guns straight Isis supporter, reject democracy.
“Got my suicide vest, one click, boom and I’ll see you later.”
Abu was convicted at the Old Bailey today[/caption]
Sahayb Abu, 27, in one of a series of homemade videos he sent to his 32-year-old brother Muhamed Abu on June 30 last year[/caption]
He was arrested at his father’s Chadwell Heath flat on July 9 last year and police found an ISIS black flag in his bedroom wardrobe.
The rapper insisted his extremist comments and songs were designed to impress girls and wind people up.
Sahayb also bizarrely claimed in court that he was trying to launch an agricultural charity called “Islamic Growth” after watching videos by Alan Titchmarsh.
But his phone revealed he had downloaded ISIS videos and become obsessed with knife attacks.
Several of Abu’s relatives were also found to have been linked to extremism in the past, it was revealed.
His half brothers Wail and Suleyman Aweys were killed after travelling to Syria to fight with IS in 2015, while aged 21 and 19 respectively.
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Another son and daughter, along with her husband, were jailed for sharing radical material in which proclaimed “We are the enemy within.”
Commander Smith, of Scotland Yard’s Counter-Terrorism Command, said it was “striking” that so many people from the same family have been connected to terrorism.
He warned the Covid pandemic has not prevented terrorists from planning violent acts and police and MI5 were responding to the threat.
