BRITISH TEEN GETS LIFE SENTENCE

A teenager who was reported to British anti-terror authorities by his mother was jailed for life on Friday. Matthew King, 19, will serve a minimum term of six years for plotting a terror attack on police officers or soldiers. In what was the first terror sentencing in England and Wales to be televised, the judge praised King ’s mother for taking her suspicions to the Prevent counter-terror program. “She took the very bold step of alerting Prevent when she had concerns for her son,” Judge Mark Lucraft said during sentencing at the Old Bailey. In January, King pleaded guilty to the preparation of terror acts between Dec. 22, 2021 and May 17, 2022. King, who was radicalized online during the pandemic, had expressed a desire to kill military personnel as he prepared to stake out a British army barracks in east London.