The case was prosecuted as a terrorist offence because Osborne’s actions were taken to advance a political purpose, a factor that was taken into account in the sentencing.
Source/Credit: The Guardian
By Vikram Dodd/Kevin Rawlinson | February 1, 2018
Darren Osborne is found guilty of terrorist killing outside mosque, triggering review of extreme right threat
A man “brainwashed” within a month by anti-Muslim propaganda has been found guilty of a murderous terrorist attack on worshippers leaving a mosque, triggering a complete review of the national security threat posed by the extreme right.
A jury took less than an hour to be convinced that Darren Osborne, 48, drove a van into a crowd of Muslims near a mosque in Finsbury Park, north London, killing one and injuring 12.
Police believe the catalyst for Osborne’s descent into hate was seeing a BBC drama about a sexual abuse scandal involving Muslim men, which was then used in online extremist propaganda against Islam. He was a heavy consumer of internet propaganda from Tommy Robinson, the founder of the English Defence League and material from Britain First, another extremist hate group.
In the premeditated attack in June 2017, Osborne’s rented van left a tyre mark on the upper torso of Makram Ali, 51, targeted because he was Muslim and as he returned from prayers.
The case was prosecuted as a terrorist offence because Osborne’s actions were taken to advance a political purpose, a factor that was taken into account in the sentencing.
Ali died 100 yards from his home in a killing witnessed by some of his family. Others were left with life-changing injuries.
The jury had been told Osborne wanted to kill as many Muslims as possible.
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