A WHITE Muslim convert who plotted a terror attack on soldiers and grieving families in the town of Royal Wootton Bassett has been jailed for six years.
Richard Dart, 30 - who was converted by the radical cleric Anjem Choudary - also discussed targeting members of the security services including "M15 or M16 heads".
The radical Muslim extremist - the son of teachers from Dorset - was branded “dangerous” by security services as he talked of targeting civilians and military in the UK.
Today the former BBC security guard refused to stand as he received an 11-year extended sentence a the Old Bailey.
Under the extended sentence provisions he received a six-year prison term with an additional five years on licence.
When released from prison, he will be on licence for five years and liable to recall at any stage of the period.
Terror plot ... Jahangir Alom and Imran Mahmood
Dart and former PCSO and TA cadet Jahangir Alom, 26, tried to attend terror camps in the tribal areas of Pakistan and sought help from terror trained Imran Mahmood, 22.
Anti-terror police found Dart had a memory stick in which he named Choudary as an executor of his will and had £4,800 on him.
But once stopped from travelling Dart and Mahmood began plotting attacks in the UK despite being watched by the security services.
They would communicate by typing into a word document and then delete the files or writing texts on their mobiles and then showing each other the screens.
Unknown to them computer experts were able to recover some of the deleted files.
In one, Mahmood suggested targeting the Wiltshire town and the security services as British troops were returned through Royal Wootton Bassett.
Last year Dart, who has changed his name to Salahuddin al Britani, featured in a BBC documentary filmed by his own brother about his conversion to Islam.
During the film, called My Brother the Islamist, Dart was seen protesting about British soldiers in Afghanistan and calling them ’murderers’ and called for Sharia law to be established in Britain.
Alom’s wife Ruksana Begum, 22, of Islington, has already been sentenced to a year after pleaded guilty to possessing the al Qaeda magazines Inspire.
The trio were arrested in July of last year.
Dart, of Ealing, west London; Mahmood of Northolt, west London; and Alom of Stratford, east London, each pleaded guilty to one charge of engaging in conduct in preparation for acts of terrorism between July 2010 and July 2012.
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