Woman given life for plot to blow up London's St. Paul's Cathedral in suicide attack

A woman was jailed for life, with a minimum sentence of 14 years on Friday for plotting to blow up London's St. Paul’s Cadral, a nearby hotel and a subway train in a suicide attack.

Safiyya Shaikh, 37, extensively researched how to cause maximum carn at historic church and visitor attraction. Police said she h planned to leave a bomb in a bag at cadral before detonating a suicide vest on a London Underground train.

Her defense lawyers said she h doubts about plot, but prosecutors disclosed details of a call she me to a friend from prison last week in which she said she “didn’t get cold feet” and “was rey to go through with it.”

Muslim convert, who was a supporter of Islamic State group, pleed guilty to creating a terrorist act and dissemination of a terrorist publication.

Shaikh, born Michelle Ramsden, was arrested in October after she sought help from an undercover officer who posed as a bomb-making expert.

“She engd with ors, who she believed to be of a similar mindset, to instigate and plan a terrorist attack involving use of improvised explosives to attack St Paul’s Cadral and a hotel nearby,” prosecutor Alison Morgan said. “She visited cadral to assess its security arrangements and best place to detonate a bomb.”

“She stated that her intention was to kill herself and as many or people as possible,” she ded.

Police said Shaikh was also heavily involved in extremist propaganda posts online and inspiring ors to fight.

(Picture credit: St Paul's Cadral's official website)