Ward had been jailed previously for possessing bullets and explosives

Ward, who was caught with a terrifying arms cache and bomb-making equipment, kept a list of mosques and pledged the “demise” of Islam. Judge Lord Burns told Ward: 'The jury found you guilty and must have been satisfied you were in the course of preparing acts of terrorism. “The jury’s view was that you formed an intention to attack a Mosque or Mosques in Aberdeen and would have acted alone. You had reached the stage of identifying your targets and expressed threats against Muslims.”

Lord Burns said that if Ward had carried out the acts of terrorism “It would have had catastrophic results.”

The judge added: “You had reached the stage of buying materials and you planned to cause serious injury at the least. Your obsession with weapons and explosives and your extreme right-wing attitudes presents serious risk to the public.”

It will be up to the parole board to decide when, or if, he is released. They also found that Ward, who told jurors he thought Hitler had made mistakes, had started to compile a book called “Combat 18 British Mosque Address Book.”

Combat 18 is the name of an extreme British right-wing paramilitary group

On the title page of the book, Ward had written : “This book is dedicated to all that follow Mohammed and the Islamic faith. You will all soon suffer your demise.”

Ward, a former psychiatric patient, claimed he was suffering from mental illness at the time

He said he believed the world was going to end in 2012 and he wanted to survive the apocalypse.
The High Court in Glasgow sentences Banff resident Connor Ward to life in prison with a minimum term of six years for plotting an anti-Islamic terror attack against mosques in Aberdeen.