Friend of London Bridge killer Khuram Butt has been jailed for spreading ISIS propaganda
Taha Hussain, 21, was close friends with Khuram Butt who drove a fan into a crowd and went on a killing spree with a knife at London Bridge
AN ISLAMIC State-obsessed pal of the London Bridge terror attack ringleader who spouted hatred outside Windsor Castle has been jailed.
Wannabe jihadi Taha Hussain boasted about toppling a statue of Queen Victoria in front of the royal residence.
The 21-year-old said he wanted to “liberate” the Berkshire town and yelled IS chants outside nearby Victoria Barracks branding soldiers as “baby butchers.”
Hussain was close friends with Khuram Butt, 22, who led a van and knife rampage at London Bridge in June killing eight people.
Apprentice panel beater Hussain was also an associate of jailed hate preacher Anjem Choundary.
He also made a video outside Hounslow barracks with extremist Haroon Ali Syed, 19, jailed in July for plotting a terrorist attack on an Elton John concert in Hyde Park.
He filmed himself ranting about the terror group and broadcast them on two YouTube channels and via WhatsApp and Telegram apps.
Cops swooped and arrested him and found a series of videos on his mobile which had an IS black flag on his screensaver and his pin number was 9117.
Detectives who found it last August believed this was homage to the 9/11 and 7/7 terror attacks.
In one filmed outside the castle he said: ''See that place over there? InshaAllah, we're going to tear up the British flag replace it with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi” - the leader of IS.
From July 2015, Hussain, of Slough spent 11 months sharing clips of terror attacks and copies of a IS magazine Dabiq and attended Islamic roadshows.
Hussain said politicians, police and soldiers were the "best of all people to kill."
He claimed he was simply a “peaceful protester” and said the propaganda he shared was only for “educational purposes.”
But he was found guilty on seven counts of disseminating a terror document at the Old Bailey in July.
Frida Hussain, mitigating, said: ''One has to bear in mind his relative youth.
"He was aged 19 at the time, this was a young man emerging in a world of this nature.
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''Youngsters from his background and society are daily exposed to the kind of rhetoric that he did speak of.
“There will be those who fall on the wrong side of the line.
''It is not too late for this young man to turn his life and views around, he has motivation and commitment to that."
But Judge Paul Dodgson jailed him for four-and-a-half years at Kingston crown court yesterday.