A failed asylum seeker has been discovered responsible of making an attempt to interrupt into London's Israeli embassy to launch a knife assault.Kuwait-born Abdullah Albadri, 34, was tackled by armed police after he leapt up an embassy fence armed with a pair of four-inch knives final Might. Jurors have been advised he had tried to …
A failed asylum seeker has been discovered responsible of making an attempt to interrupt into London’s Israeli embassy to launch a knife assault.
Kuwait-born Abdullah Albadri, 34, was tackled by armed police after he leapt up an embassy fence armed with a pair of four-inch knives final Might.
Jurors have been advised he had tried to get into the grounds in Kensington, west London, to “actual revenge” for the killing of kids in Gaza.
On Friday, a jury on the Previous Bailey, which deliberated for practically 14 hours, discovered him responsible of preparation of terrorist acts and possession of two bladed articles.
The court docket had heard how Albadri was refused asylum after he twice entered the UK in small boats in 2021 and April 2025.
The defendant, who was born into the stateless Arabian Bedoon tribe, stated he had been jailed and mistreated for campaigning for human rights in Kuwait.
On 28 April final yr, he was seen on CCTV strolling for an hour from Kilburn in northwest London to the embassy together with his head lined by darkish sun shades and a particular pink and white scarf.
After reaching the embassy simply earlier than 6pm, Albadri made a salute-like gesture and tried to scale the 8ft excessive steel fence.
Inside seconds, two armed diplomatic safety officers reached up and grabbed the defendant, pulling him to the bottom.
Laptop Libby Chessor advised jurors it had been “difficult” pulling Albadri off the fence as a result of he had been holding on “fairly strongly”.
She stated: “The best way he was strolling in the direction of the embassy, the issues he was saying, how shortly he jumped up, I believed it was his intent to recover from that railing.”
Albadri was pinned down by officers and handcuffed earlier than being searched.
On police body-worn video proven in court docket, Albadri indicated he had “received my weapons”.
Officers seized two red-handled 10cm (four-inch) knives with serrated blades together with items of paper together with a “martyrdom be aware”.
Albadri advised police: “I wanna make a criminal offense inside there, why are you stopping me? Why are you stopping from making crimes?”
He went on to complain: “Why did not you let me in?”
Earlier than being put right into a police van, Albadri was heard on police body-worn video to say: ” it is only a message, yeah.
“They should cease this f****** conflict on kids.
“We have to stay in concord as a result of the youngsters who stay there, it is all the identical.
“We live in the identical Earth, it isn’t a faraway place…”
The defendant later denied getting ready to commit an act of terrorism and stated the knives have been supposed for “private use” as he was homeless.
At trial, Albadri stated he by no means needed to hurt anybody because it was “towards my nature”.
Defence barrister Chris Henry KC stated Albadri had been in a “state of whole despair” after his asylum declare was rejected, telling jurors the case “is a few human being in actual misery and what’s going on inside his head”.
Following the decision, Bethan David, head of the Crown Prosecution Service Counter terrorism division, stated Albadri “intentionally armed himself [and] hid his id”, actions, she stated, which “have been pushed by an intention to make use of violence to make a political assertion”.
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