A British national has been found guilty in a UK court of attempting to join the radical terrorist group al-Shabaab in Somalia.
The man found guilty is Trevor Mulindwa, age 21. He was placed under arrest after being discovered to have several al-Shabaab propaganda movies in his possession in September of 2014. He was arrested attempting to board a flight to Mogadishu, Somalia.
On Friday, November 27, he was convicted of trying to join the group under Section Five of Britain’s terrorism act.
Richard Walton, the Commander of the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command, told the Evening Standard about the threat of the militant group in the UK: “Al-Shabaab have been engaged over the past years in a range of terrorist atrocities in Somalia and Kenya and have also in the past planned attacks against the UK. We are now faced with the challenge of radicalised British nationals attempting to join many different terrorist groups in a variety of different countries. We will continue to do all we can to stop their travel to prevent them becoming trained terrorists and potentially returning back to the UK as a greater threat with the intention of carrying out attacks here.”
There have been several incidents of British nationals attempting or successfully joining the al-Shabaab militia in Somalia.
Thomas Evans, a 25-year-old British citizen, was killed alongside other ten militants when they tried to attack a military camp at Baure, Lamu County on June 14, 2015, Sunday.
The mother of Evans has since said that she is relieved he was killed because now he can ‘no longer harm innocent people’.
The al-Shabaab has been a serious threat to Kenya for the last several years, launching a series of high profile attacks within Kenyan territory.
The group gained international notoriety in September of 2013, with several militants from the group storming the Westgate mall in Nairobi, killing at least 67 people. Several children and pregnant women were killed in the attack.
The group is thought to hold a base in the Boni forest region of Kenya, from which they train fighters and carry out attacks in Kenya.
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