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Howden man jailed over Meadowhall shopping centre terror plot
- On Thursday , Jordan Richardson was sentenced at Leeds Crown Court to a discretionary life term with a minimum of 16 years, with Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb noting his `genuine ideological commitment to violent jihad`.
- Richardson became interested in Islam shortly before his 20th birthday and converted after conversations at the gym where he worked, attending a mosque in Goole about once a week while rapidly adopting extremist content on YouTube and Instagram.
- At Richardson's home, officers recovered a crossbow bought online for £35.95, a pack of 10 crossbow bolts, and a mustard gas recipe prosecutors said is viable and potentially fatal.
- Jurors found Richardson guilty in November of preparing acts of terrorism, collecting information useful to terrorists, and distributing terrorist publications, while police said their intervention stopped an attack within weeks.
- A review of his social media showed an Instagram account using the handle Anglo Jihadi and videos featuring Meadowhall shopping centre as a possible target, while prosecutors said he shared antisemitic content praising ISIS and Al-Qaeda and regularly expressed a wish to kill Jews.
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