Matthew King, 19, wanted to travel to Syria to join IS and filmed potential targets outside army barracks

A teenager who staked out British soldiers and police officers in preparation for a terror attack has been jailed for life after his mother took what a judge has described as the “bold step” to report him.

Matthew King, 19, who wanted to travel Syria to join Islamic State, expressed a desire online to kill a British Marine and had made a series of videos of potential targets outside an army barracks, a magistrates court and railway station.

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