Shikhey was found guilty of preparing acts of terrorism by applying for a loan, purchasing a one way ticket to Istanbul and going to London Stansted in order to travel abroad to engage in violent jihad. A delivery driver who harboured “chilling fantasies” about killing members of Tottenham’s Jewish community and attacking White Hart Lane, has jailed for attempting to join Islamic State. But in an online chat, he fell in love with a jihadi bride in Norway and discussed committing atrocities in the UK with a fellow Somali living in Kenya. He was found guilty of preparing terrorist acts on or before May 23 last year following a trial at the Old Bailey in February, and Judge Martin Edmunds QC jailed him for eight years with a further four years on extended licence. Today Judge Martin Edmunds QC jailed him for eight years with a further four years on extended licence. He told the defendant: "In travelling you were abandoning your two families, one in Holland and one in Kenya, behind. The court heard that he appeared as a quiet, hard-working religiously observant man, who lived in Tottenham, north London, and worked for the delivery firm DPD. But under the surface you were increasingly radicalised. The judge told him: "During your conversations with Abdirahman Hassan in Kenya you had discussions about the murder of David Cameron and Her Majesty the Queen and about committing atrocities against football fans and members of the Jewish community in the Tottenham area. "These conversations, although chilling, dangerous and testament to your increasing radicalization, were in my judgment more in the nature of fantasy than conspiracy", the judge told him, according to the Mirror. "I am not sentencing you, indeed cannot sentence you, on this charge, for threatened acts of terrorism in this country." “I am not sentencing you, indeed cannot sentence you, on this charge, for threatened acts of terrorism in this country.”

He added: “Given the scope of your ambition, including your fantasies about the commission of very grave terrorist acts in the UK, and your hatred for those who do not share your views, I have no hesitation in finding you to be dangerous within the meaning of the Criminal Justice Act 2003.”

The court had heard how the IS fan tried to raise money for his trip by applying for various loans, securing £10,000 from Barclays for a “wedding”, jurors were told. S. was arrested at Stansted airport in London on May 24th last year, as he was preparing to board a flight to Turkey, from where he wanted to sneak across the border to Syria or Iraq, according to the Prosecutor. The court heard in 2016 he was in touch with a Somalian man in Kenya called Abdirahman Idris Hassan, with messages recovered from a laptop after Hassan was arrested there in September 2016 for terror offences. Aweys Shikhey, 34, a Dutch national originally from Somalia, spoke of shooting Jews in Stamford Hill, north London and football supporters with an AK47 as they left Tottenham's White Hart Lane stadium.
A Central Criminal Court judge sentences Dutch-Somali terror convict Aweys Shikhey to eight years with an extended licence of four years. Shikhey received international attention for fantasy chats with a Kenyan online about murdering David Cameron, Queen Elizabeth II, Jews, and football fans.