London jury convicts Kuwaiti of terror prep at embassy

A London jury convicted 34-year-old Kuwaiti national Abdullah Albadri on Friday of preparing a terrorist act and possessing two bladed articles after he attempted to scale the fence of Israel's embassy in west London while armed with knives.

The incident occurred on April 28, 2025, outside the embassy in Kensington Palace Gardens. Court footage and witness testimony showed Albadri walking for about an hour from Kilburn in northwest London, wearing sunglasses and a red-and-white headscarf over his face. Just before 6 p.m., he made a salute-like gesture, then jumped onto the eight-foot metal fence. Two armed diplomatic protection officers quickly pulled him down after he held on strongly, as Pc Libby Chessor later testified. "The way he was walking towards the embassy, the things he was saying, how quickly he jumped up, I believed it was his intent to get over that railing," she told jurors at the Old Bailey.

Officers pinned Albadri to the ground, handcuffed him and searched him, recovering two red-handled, four-inch knives with serrated blades and papers including a martyrdom note. Body-worn camera footage captured him saying he had "got my weapons" and asking, "I wanna make a...