Mohiussunnath Chowdhury is the jihadi who boasted of fooling jury into clearing him for one jihad attack and then immediately plotted another. Now he is gaslighting another courtroom, and it will probably work again. Britain, like most other Western countries, seems to have an endless supply of fools.
“‘Jihadist’, 28, who was cleared of sword attack on police outside Buckingham Palace claims boasts to undercover officers about Gay Pride terror plot was ‘prison banter’ to try to ‘fit in’, court hears,” by James Gant, Mailonline, January 24, 2020:
An alleged jihadist has told a jury his boasts about committing a terrorist attack to undercover police officers was just ‘bravado’ to try to ‘fit in’.
Mohiussunnath Chowdhury said most of what he told the officers, who he believed were ‘good Muslims’, was ‘exaggeration’ and ‘prison banter’, Woolwich Crown Court heard.
Giving evidence today, the 28-year-old said he wanted to ‘impress’ new friends following his release from custody after being cleared of terrorism over an attack on two police officers with a sword outside Buckingham Palace in August 2017.
But he insisted he always steered the conversation away from actually committing any acts of terrorism, saying that got ‘too real’ for him.
‘I wanted that validation, that acceptance. But I didn’t want to actually do anything,’ he said.
Prosecutors allege Chowdhury was planning to kill members of the public at busy tourist hotspots including London’s Madame Tussauds and the Gay Pride parade last year but was unwittingly confiding in undercover officers who had him under surveillance.
He even bragged about deceiving the jury which cleared him in December 2018 over the sword attack outside the Queen’s London residence, prosecutor Duncan Atkinson QC said earlier in the trial.
Chowdhury told the court a recording of him boasting to the officers about an ‘iconic’ terror attack on Madame Tussauds was him referring to another inmate’s plot.
‘I wasn’t suggesting that I would attack it and they should attack it. This is a completely false allegation,’ he added.
It was claimed the only reason Chowdhury joined a firearms course was because he was interested in guns as a hobby.
His barrister Simon Csoka QC asked him: ‘Did you stop and think about how that might be perceived?’
‘I just thought I was a free man, I shouldn’t have to restrict myself,’ replied Chowdhury.
The court heard that following his arrest he was approached in Belmarsh prison by Muslim inmates who treated him ‘like a hero’ and he decided to ‘play along’.
He said: ‘I kind of learned to talk the talk. For me, it was survival thing.’…