ISIS supporter Safiyya Amira Shaikh, 37, born Michelle Ramsden, carried out a reconnaissance trip to the City of London to scope out St Paul's as a potential target while staying in a hotel. A court previously heard she did not go ahead with the horrifying attack as she got "cold feet". The former company director told her friend in a prison call from HMP Bronzefield she was lying when she previously told her lawyers she got cold feet. Shaikh intended to leave one of the devices in the hotel and then carry the other into St Paul's, where she would detonate it, killing herself and as many other innocent people as possible. The terrorist previously admitted preparing acts of terror and disseminating terrorist publications while flanked by three prison officers.

Source: Daily Mirror July 03, 2020 08:20 UTC