Dorset man admits terror charges

Richard Dart, the son of two Dorset teachers Richard Dart, the son of two Dorset teachers

Muslim convert Richard Dart admitted terrorism charges at the Old Bailey today.

Dart, Imran Mahmood and Jahangir Alom pleaded guilty to preparing for terrorism or assisting another in terrorism, between July 2010 and July last year.

Dart, 29, originally from Weymouth, but now living in west London, Mahmood, 21, from Northolt, west London, and Alom, 26, of  Stratford, east London, were arrested between July 5 and 7 last year.

The charges said they travelled to Pakistan for terror training, travelled abroad to commit acts of terrorism and provided information about travel to Pakistan, terrorism training and operational security while there.

They appeared before Mr Justice Simon by prison video-link for a plea and case management hearing. The men had been due to face trial next month.

Dart, the son of teachers from Dorset, appeared in a BBC Three documentary made by his stepbrother after Dart converted to Islam.

In the film, My Brother The Islamist, Dart was said to have been turned into an extremist in months after joining the Muslims Against Crusades group.

Dart, who was said to have changed his name of Salahuddin al-Britani, had reportedly worked as a police community support officer and a BBC security guard.

He fell under the spell of controversial preacher Anjem Choudary while studying carpentry at college in West London.

He said his first meeting with the radical preacher changed his life forever, He gave up drinking alcohol, eating pork and announced he would be happy to fight and die overseas to defeat Western aggression against Islam.

 

Comments(21)

theDmonster says...
11:52am Fri 15 Mar 13

Can we just take a moment to appreciate that beard?

Afcbpete says...
11:53am Fri 15 Mar 13

Why not save the hard stretched taxpayer a load of money and see if this moron would like to try and convert my son and some of his chums on their return from Afghan in a few weeks.??? In a locked room of cause :)

nobbythesheep says...
11:55am Fri 15 Mar 13

Wasnt he in Three Lions?

l'anglais says...
11:58am Fri 15 Mar 13

Afcbpete wrote:
Why not save the hard stretched taxpayer a load of money and see if this moron would like to try and convert my son and some of his chums on their return from Afghan in a few weeks.??? In a locked room of cause :)
Do you hope that they will use their persuasive intellectual point of views to counterbalance his barbaric extreme views?
Or will they use the same violence used by terrorists to enact our DEMOCRATIC justice?

TheDistrict says...
12:11pm Fri 15 Mar 13

l'anglais wrote:
Afcbpete wrote:
Why not save the hard stretched taxpayer a load of money and see if this moron would like to try and convert my son and some of his chums on their return from Afghan in a few weeks.??? In a locked room of cause :)
Do you hope that they will use their persuasive intellectual point of views to counterbalance his barbaric extreme views?
Or will they use the same violence used by terrorists to enact our DEMOCRATIC justice?
There is always one l'anglais. These so called Muslim converts, terrorists cannot even begin to be of similar standings than those of our Armed Forces. Anyone from this country is entitled to change its religion, its called democracy, but to change their religion and then use this as an entry into terrorism against their own countryman is dispicable.
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I have my thoughts, but one is not permitted to say so on this forum, and quite rightly so.
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Afcbpete says...
12:13pm Fri 15 Mar 13

Oh I'm certain they will use the same justice being dealt out to them. Democratic!!! you ARE having al laugh. when were YOU last blown up by an IED?? Terrorists are waging war and as such get their just deserts, basically IF he's from the UK, it should be classed as treason against the State and as such a bullet is too good for them, but they'd make good target practice :)

saynomore says...
12:26pm Fri 15 Mar 13

Yes What ever happened to the crime of treason,is there no such thing anymore.

The Renegade Master says...
12:57pm Fri 15 Mar 13

Send this low life piece of human waste to Afghanistan and see if the Taliban and al-Qaeda welcome him. No way will that beard and his new found faith save this idiot "infidel" from being beheaded.

EddieVH says...
1:18pm Fri 15 Mar 13

l'anglais wrote:
Afcbpete wrote:
Why not save the hard stretched taxpayer a load of money and see if this moron would like to try and convert my son and some of his chums on their return from Afghan in a few weeks.??? In a locked room of cause :)
Do you hope that they will use their persuasive intellectual point of views to counterbalance his barbaric extreme views?
Or will they use the same violence used by terrorists to enact our DEMOCRATIC justice?
Oooh, I know this! It's the first, no wait, the second one. You see, 'our' violence is not the same as theirs, because we are right, and they are wrong. Silly.

B.F.G says...
2:53pm Fri 15 Mar 13

Hang him, hang him high.

cyco44 says...
3:42pm Fri 15 Mar 13

Surely the headline here should read "Steve Macdonald from Coronation Street admits terror charges"

Old Colonial says...
4:32pm Fri 15 Mar 13

New health scare headline coming up:

"Lack of pork in diet leads to acts of terrorism".

l'anglais says...
4:33pm Fri 15 Mar 13

Afcbpete wrote:
Oh I'm certain they will use the same justice being dealt out to them. Democratic!!! you ARE having al laugh. when were YOU last blown up by an IED?? Terrorists are waging war and as such get their just deserts, basically IF he's from the UK, it should be classed as treason against the State and as such a bullet is too good for them, but they'd make good target practice :)
I'm sure the "terrorists" don't want to use IED's to kill "our" lot.
They'd rather have our arms.

However unlike Britain, they haven't spent the past millennium marauding throughout the globe, killing and robbing from "lesser" peoples.

These peoples have since become nations, who just seem to be saying GET OFF MY LAND.

portia6 says...
4:37pm Fri 15 Mar 13

l'anglais wrote:
Afcbpete wrote:
Why not save the hard stretched taxpayer a load of money and see if this moron would like to try and convert my son and some of his chums on their return from Afghan in a few weeks.??? In a locked room of cause :)
Do you hope that they will use their persuasive intellectual point of views to counterbalance his barbaric extreme views?
Or will they use the same violence used by terrorists to enact our DEMOCRATIC justice?
Of course! (of cause), causative phrase
by way of explanation.

SeafaringMan says...
4:58pm Fri 15 Mar 13

Old Colonial wrote:
New health scare headline coming up:

"Lack of pork in diet leads to acts of terrorism".
. . . or to runaway facial infestation!

l'anglais says...
5:44pm Fri 15 Mar 13

portia6 wrote:
l'anglais wrote:
Afcbpete wrote:
Why not save the hard stretched taxpayer a load of money and see if this moron would like to try and convert my son and some of his chums on their return from Afghan in a few weeks.??? In a locked room of cause :)
Do you hope that they will use their persuasive intellectual point of views to counterbalance his barbaric extreme views?
Or will they use the same violence used by terrorists to enact our DEMOCRATIC justice?
Of course! (of cause), causative phrase
by way of explanation.
I thought he was calling the IRA in.........for the cause.

Afcbpete says...
6:12pm Fri 15 Mar 13

l'anglais wrote:
Afcbpete wrote:
Oh I'm certain they will use the same justice being dealt out to them. Democratic!!! you ARE having al laugh. when were YOU last blown up by an IED?? Terrorists are waging war and as such get their just deserts, basically IF he's from the UK, it should be classed as treason against the State and as such a bullet is too good for them, but they'd make good target practice :)
I'm sure the "terrorists" don't want to use IED's to kill "our" lot.
They'd rather have our arms.

However unlike Britain, they haven't spent the past millennium marauding throughout the globe, killing and robbing from "lesser" peoples.

These peoples have since become nations, who just seem to be saying GET OFF MY LAND.
Yep, GET OFF OUR LAND!! But give us your money because we can't run our own country without syphoning off Billions and our children are starving. Off is the 2nd word, you can choose your own to go in front. No doubt you'd like us not to help those being slaughtered in Syria, it's not our land, so ignore it and the problem will go away. Still, no point trying to talk any sense to those who are so narrow minded and don't WANT to see what's happening abroad with "Our lot"!! Your basically condoning terrorism and Dictators from your comments, you should be ashamed...

fossilmole says...
9:05pm Fri 15 Mar 13

saynomore wrote:
Yes What ever happened to the crime of treason,is there no such thing anymore.
Pity that some of our wishy-washy do gooder poilticians changed the law and punishment for treason sometime in the 1970's I believe.

This needs a darned good rethink to deal with these 'vipers in our nest' living within the UK and reaping all the benefits of our democratic freedoms.

Wageslave says...
1:18am Sat 16 Mar 13

This 'billy-no-mates' would have eventually been convinced by these scumbags to become a suicide bomber and how they would laugh at him blowing up his own people

The Renegade Master says...
11:35am Sat 16 Mar 13

Wageslave wrote:
This 'billy-no-mates' would have eventually been convinced by these scumbags to become a suicide bomber and how they would laugh at him blowing up his own people
Then he could come back as another Achmed the Dead Terrorist and shout "silence... I kill you" at us all.
Who? What? Google him he's a brilliantly funny creation of ventriloquist Jeff Dunham!

l'anglais says...
4:36pm Sat 16 Mar 13

Afcbpete wrote:
l'anglais wrote:
Afcbpete wrote:
Oh I'm certain they will use the same justice being dealt out to them. Democratic!!! you ARE having al laugh. when were YOU last blown up by an IED?? Terrorists are waging war and as such get their just deserts, basically IF he's from the UK, it should be classed as treason against the State and as such a bullet is too good for them, but they'd make good target practice :)
I'm sure the "terrorists" don't want to use IED's to kill "our" lot.
They'd rather have our arms.

However unlike Britain, they haven't spent the past millennium marauding throughout the globe, killing and robbing from "lesser" peoples.

These peoples have since become nations, who just seem to be saying GET OFF MY LAND.
Yep, GET OFF OUR LAND!! But give us your money because we can't run our own country without syphoning off Billions and our children are starving. Off is the 2nd word, you can choose your own to go in front. No doubt you'd like us not to help those being slaughtered in Syria, it's not our land, so ignore it and the problem will go away. Still, no point trying to talk any sense to those who are so narrow minded and don't WANT to see what's happening abroad with "Our lot"!! Your basically condoning terrorism and Dictators from your comments, you should be ashamed...
The echo removed my history lesson on the origins of Syria, Palestine and Iraq.
I also referred to the Khyber pass in Afghanistan, which also raffled some feathers.
God save The Empire, which century are we in Echo editors?

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