An Oxted man was charged on Friday for sending threatening messages to the Israeli embassy to the UK, a Muslim organization, and a member of parliament’s office, according to the Crown Prosecution Service and the Surrey Police.
Thirty-year-old Nick Daly faces nine counts of offensive messages for allegedly sending eight anti-Muslim messages to a Muslim organization and one antisemitic message to the Israeli embassy, and a count of threatening death or harm for messages he allegedly sent to an MP’s office. The messages were allegedly sent between January 27 and Thursday.
Upon search of Daly’s residence, police said that they found a weapon and cannabis. He was consequently charged with one count of possession of an offensive weapon in a private place, and possession of a controlled drug.
The threat against the Israeli embassy in the UK is the latest made against the diplomatic mission. On April 17 videos were published online by alleged Iranian front group Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia claiming that they had used drones to drop hazardous chemicals on the embassy. Police closed down the area, finding two jars of a benign substance.
Three men were arrested in relation to the April 17 Kensington Gardens incident. A 31-year-old Potters Bar man was arrested on suspicion of preparing an act of terrorism last Wednesday. Last Sunday a 37-year-old Devon man was arrested under the same suspicion. A 39-year-old Ealing man was arrested on April 21, but he was released without charge.
A knife-wielding failed asylum seeker who attempted to break into the Israeli embassy in London last April was convicted of planning a terrorist attack last Friday. Abdullah Sabah Albadri was convicted of one count of preparation of terrorist acts, and two counts of possession of a bladed article. The 34 year old man attempted to gain entry into the diplomatic mission, armed with two knives and a martyrdom note that explained that he intended to die “for the glory of God.”