Small boat migrant guilty of attempting knife attack on Israeli embassy

Small boat migrant guilty of attempting knife attack on Israeli embassyJust nowShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleDaniel SandfordUK correspondent, Old BaileyCounter Terrorism PolicingAbdullah Albadri climbed onto the Israeli embassy railings before his arrest in April last yearA man who tried to climb into the Israeli embassy in London carrying two knives has been found guilty of preparing a terror-related knife attack.Abdullah Albadri, 34, had only arrived in the UK in a small boat from France 16 days before the attempted attack on 28 April 2025. It was the second time he had entered the UK illegally by small boat in four years.He was arrested trying to scale the railings of the heavily-guarded embassy, and asked the armed diplomatic protection officers who detained him, "Why are you stopping me from making crimes?"That morning he had messaged his mother: "I chose the path of martyrdom."On Friday, a jury at the Old Bailey in London, which deliberated for nearly 14 hours, found him guilty by majority verdict of preparation of terrorist acts and possession of two bladed articles.Albadri's motivation seems to have been Israel's war in Gaza. After his arrest, he told officers, "I want to do something to stop the war", and also said he wanted to stop a war on children.During his trial, Albadri said that he was from the stateless Bedoon tribe and had been born in Kuwait. His police officer father had paid for his schooling but he could not access higher education because of his ethnicity, so he became an activist. He said he had spent five years in prison in Kuwait.Counter Terrorism PolicingAbdullah AlbadriIn August 2021 he made his first small boat journey across the channel and claimed asylum. His story was that while awaiting his asylum decision he hitched a lift in a lorry that he thought was taking him to Manchester, but found himself back in France.Last year he crossed the channel again, arriving on 12 April. He was taken to...