daniel. yes, matthew king had had a troubled time at school and ended up being expelled. he effectively radicalised himself online during the pandemic. and by the beginning of last year, he was starting to think about either travelling to syria or carrying out an attack on a police officer or a soldier. we saw evidence that he had been essentially stalking police officers, filming them on his mobile phone. he at one point but a caption on snapchat over a shot of some police officers saying, target acquired. at that point, others around him were getting worried, they started reporting him to the police, even his own mother had reported him to prevent. hisjudge has praised his mother doing that. got to the eventually in may last year where police were so worried that they intervened, they arrested him and then uncovered a further world of radicalisation on his phone. and today, thejudge decided that he needed to sentence him to life in prison, but with a minimum term of six years. what e
to the minimum term people serve, i make plain that i m not ordering that you want to be released at the end of it. whether you will be released or not at that stage, or at any later stage will be a matter for the parole board to consider, only when the minimum term has been served can the parole board decide whether it is safe to release you are not. if the board does release you you remain on licence and liable to recall for the rest of your life. if the statutory surcharge applies to your case then the appropriate orders can be drawn up. i order the forfeiture under section 23 of the terrorism act 2000 of four items, r j b one, a mobile phone, rjb two, a laptop, rjb 23, tactical combat gloves and rjb 20, tactical combat goggles. you will be subject to notification requirements as set out in the counter terrorism act 2008. you may go down.
parole board. thejudge has passed quite a surprising sentence, a discretionary life sentence, so essentially matthew king will be somebody who forevermore was their life to the state. the minimum amount of time he will spend in prison could be six years but he won t be released after six years, it will be for the parole board to decide whether or not he is safe to be released at that point on the judge stressed that again at the end of his sentencing remarks as viewers will have seen, he was saying, i m not saying you should be released after six years, i m saying that s the earliest point at which the parole board can consider it. matthew king s defence will argue against this life sentenced, bank to get a fixed term, but the experience judge is the one who as coroner sat
in on the london bridge attack inquest, on the fishmongers hall attack inquest, in which he sat through extensive evidence about how people remained radical in prison and about how the fishmongers hall attacker then came out of prison and find it again and killed two people. that s why he has passed this discretionary life sentence with a minimum term of six years. fine discretionary life sentence with a minimum term of six years. one of the interesting minimum term of six years. one of the interesting aspects minimum term of six years. one of the interesting aspects of - minimum term of six years. one of the interesting aspects of this - minimum term of six years. one of the interesting aspects of this case | the interesting aspects of this case is how his mother, matthew king s mother, alerted the authorities after she became worried about his behaviour and she was praised by the judge. behaviour and she was praised by the “udue. , a behaviour and she was praised by the ud.
to have a discretionary life sentence with a minimum term of six years and the parole board will decide when he is released. share years and the parole board will decide when he is released. are home affairs correspondent decide when he is released. are home affairs correspondent daniel decide when he is released. are home affairs correspondent daniel sanford l affairs correspondent daniel sanford outside the old bailey live with the latest on the judge summarising, the sentencing. for more detail on this, you can go to the bbc live page which has all the details from the case and the sentencing today but what i m going to do now is bring you daniel sanford s piece that looks back and gives you an overview on the case now. stalking and secretly filming police officers, this was some of the surveillance carried out by matthew king as he prepared his attack on the weeks before his arrest. the locations he scouted included officers on duty outside stratford magistrates court. he poste