An 'armchair extremist' who hoarded copies of Al-Qaeda magazines and carried out searches of Prince Louis and other members of the Royal Family has been jailed for more than two years.
Mohammed Ghani, 28, was held after he called the emergency services claiming he had been drugged by doctors and MI5, threatening to "f***ing kill a civilian on the street for what they did to me".
Ghani added: "I will kill a police officer."
When police arrived at his home in Barnet, north London on January 12 he showed them an Apple laptop and USB devices which he said 'will get me arrested'.
Ghani admitted downloading copies of the online Al-Qaeda magazine 'Inspire' early last year which he then 're-put' onto the USBs in November, adding that he thought an offence was only committed if the material was acted on.
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The issues he had stashed away contained bomb-making instructions, suggested ideal targets for car bombs such as election campaigns and Premier League football matches as well as detailed directions on how to derail a train.
Prosecutor Brett Weaver told the Old Bailey that Ghani had conducted searches of explosives through an extremist website that he also accessed through his phone.
He had also downloaded 15 separate copies of ISIS propaganda magazine 'Dabiq' and was previously engaged with officers from the 'Channel' and 'Prevent' anti-radicalisation programmes.
"It was used to conduct a number of searches of relevance, which include a search for Prince Louis on 4 September, issues of 'Dabiq' on 27 November, 'What happened when Anjem Choudary held a demonstration outside a large London mosque" and 'Prince William' on 28 November,' he continued.
"There were searches for 'Anjem Choudary' and 'MI5' on 9 January this year, searches for 'George Metropolitan Police', 'police', 'MI5', 'Barnet Police', 'British Army recruitment for foreigners' on 10 January this year, and searches for 'Prince William', 'Queen Elizabeth' and 'Prince Charles' on 11 January."
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Mr Weaver said the publications, combined with the use of various devices to access them, showed that Ghani had 'a deep-seated and sustained interest in extremist material'.
Cassan Lindsay, defending, said Ghani had been labelled an 'armchair extremist' in reports, adding that he only downloaded the publications to try and build up his level of understanding and did not even bother reading through much of them.
"He doesn't support it, but he understands why those who carry out these offences believe they are justified in doing it," Mr Lindsay said.
"But ultimately any use of violence is not something Mr Ghani actually supports."
The paranoid schizophrenic described the 999 calls as a 'cry for help' because he was 'unwell and upset' about the effects the medication to treat his mental illness was having on him.
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Mr Lindsay said that although the material could obviously endanger life, actual harm was very unlikely at the hands of Ghani, who is 'clearly vulnerable'.
Judge Mark Dennis QC said Ghani had suffered from "unstable mental health since at least 2014", which has 'coincided with a growing interest in Islamic extremism and violent jihad as promoted by the likes of the Islamic State'.
"By 2018, the defendant's views in this regard were becoming entrenched and he was actively seeking out and acquiring material encouraging and glorifying terrorist activity,' he added.
"By late 2018, the defendant was downloading multiple issues of 'Inspire' which through its propaganda seeks to recruit the reader, vulnerable or otherwise, to the cause of violent jihad.
"It is perhaps of particular concern that all four offending issues of 'Inspire' downloaded and kept by the defendant all promoted violent lone wolf terrorist activity."
Ghani, from Barnet, north London, admitted eight counts of possessing documents containing terrorist information and was jailed for 28 months.
