Teenager jailed over Justin Bieber terrorism plot

A schoolboy has been given a life sentence for planning an Islamic State-inspired terrorist attack at a Justin Bieber concert.

Lloyd Gunton, 17, who is white, British and had not converted to Islam, stashed a hammer and kitchen knife in his school rucksack, and was preparing to set off for the attack when he was arrested at his parents' home in the Rhondda Cynon Taf area of south Wales. He had become obsessed with "gruesome stuff" and beheading videos after searching for information about Jihadi John and was radicalised online.

After Gunton, who can be named for the first time, was found guilty at Birmingham crown court of five offences including planning a terrorist attack, Judge Mark Wall, QC, jailed him for life with a…

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