Man jailed for at least 16 years over Speakers’ Corner gun attack plot

Edward Little had travelled to London with £5,000 to buy weapon for attack on Christian preacher Hatun Tash

A dangerous extremist was 10 minutes from obtaining a gun that he wanted for an attack in Hyde Park in London when he was stopped in an armed police operation, a counter-terrorism chief has said.

Edward Little, 22, had travelled by taxi from his home in Brighton to London with £5,000 in cash when officers arrested him in September 2022.