A British law student accused of plotting a terrorist attack in London is facing a retrial after the jury was discharged in a trial held partly in secret.
Erol Incedal, 26, was charged with preparing an act of terrorism. He denies the offence.
The jury has been told that Incedal was preparing to mount an attack that could have been against a small group of people or a single prominent person. Alternatively, the prosecution alleged, he may have been planning an indiscriminate attack on a hotel, like that mounted in Mumbai, India, in 2008.
After three-and-a-half weeks of evidence and five days’ deliberations, the seven women and five men of the Old Bailey jury were discharged on Tuesday morning by Mr Justice Nicol.
Prosecutor Richard Whittam QC told the court that the crown would seek a retrial on a date to be fixed, probably in the new year.
