A teenager who planned to behead a British soldier has been jailed for 22 years by a judge at the Old Bailey.
Brusthom Ziamani, 19, from Camberwell, south London, was found guilty last month of preparing an act of terrorism.
The court heard he was inspired by the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby and used the internet to research cadet bases.
He converted to Islam in 2014 and became radicalised. Months later he was arrested in east London in a possession of a 12in knife and a hammer.
Ziamani, who was 18 when held on the street in August last year as part of a joint police and MI5 intelligence operation, also had a black "Islamic flag" in his bag.
Police say he visited his former girlfriend earlier that day, when he showed her his weapons and told her he intended to attack and kill soldiers.
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