'DEATH BY COP' BID
Westminster knifeman tasered near to spot where PC Keith Palmer was killed was on a ‘death by cop’ mission, court hears
Eniola Mustafa Aminu admitted carrying a nine-inch kitchen knife before being tasered by armed officers
A knifeman tasered just yards from where Parliamentary PC Keith Palmer was killed by a jihadist was on a “death by cop” suicide mission, a court heard yesterday.
Eniola Mustafa Aminu, 27, admitted carrying a nine-inch knife at Westminster’s Carriage Gates entrance on June 16.
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Neil Allan, defending, told Westminster magistrates Aminu, of Greenwich, had mental health issues.
But he added: “This was not a political act.
"He simply wanted to die and wanted police officers to shoot him.”.
Aminu will be sentenced on September 19.
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