In a shocking revelation, a court heard yesterday that a homegrown terrorist, Edward Little, had contemplated launching a mass gun attack on the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. Little, now 22 years old, converted to Islam while serving time in prison as a teenager and identified the Queen’s funeral at Westminster Abbey as a potential target. The chilling details emerged during the trial.
Little, a British-born Muslim convert, engaged in discussions with other extremists in encrypted chats on a messaging platform, where he expressed his desire to obtain firearms such as a Mac-10 submachine gun and an AK-47 rifle. He believed that an attack with a semi-automatic rifle would send a stronger message, stating, “I don’t think there has been an attack in the UK with guns so a semi-automatic rifle would send an even stronger message.”
