An adolescent has been sentenced for planning a bomb assault on an Oasis live performance.
McKenzie Morgan, an 18-year-old, from Cwmbran, Torfaen, has been sentenced to 14 months in a younger offenders’ institute after pleading responsible to possession of an al-Qaeda coaching handbook.
Prosecutor Corinne Bramwell stated Morgan was infatuated and impressed by the deadly assault at a kids’s Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport in 2024, carried out by Axel Rudakubana.
Morgan deliberate to bomb the opening evening of Oasis’ long-awaited reunion tour, which was held at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium on July 4, per BBC Information, and stated he wished to hold out a “Rudakubana-style assault”.
He additionally reportedly claimed he was attempting to make ricin (a extremely harmful toxin) and despatched a picture of a giant knife on the market to a buddy, asking “would this work?”
He was initially arrested on June 2 after the police have been contacted by a person who was frightened by what that they had seen on Snapchat.
Morgan was then launched on bail however his cellphone was seized, and police found a number of banned al-Qaeda paperwork, together with directions on how one can perform a knife assault, in addition to photographs of Rudakubana.
He was rearrested on 19 June 2025, charged and appeared in courtroom two days later.
He advised police that he looked for the al-Qaeda coaching handbook, saved it after which learn it, and admitted a single cost of possessing a terrorist handbook.
The Crown Prosecution Service stated this was a doc more likely to be helpful to an individual committing or making ready an act of terrorism.
Rudakubana additionally injured 10 others in his assault, together with eight kids, and was later given a minimal jail sentence of 52 years initially of 2025.
