An 18-year-old from Cwmbran, Wales called McKenzie Morgan has been sentenced to 14 months after pleading guilty to possessing an al-Qaeda manual.
Inspired by Axel Rudakubana's massacre at the Taylor Swift event in Southport, he wanted to detonate a crude bomb at the first Oasis reunion concert in Cardiff and perhaps kill more kids with a knife.
The conviction, reports the BBC, relates only to the possession of al-Qaeda material under the Terrorism Act 2000, not for the planning of the attack which was only sketchy. Morgan was arrested, released on bail and arrested again on 19 June 2025, just weeks before the Gallagher concert in Cardiff. He was 17 years old at the time.
According to judge Sarah Whitehouse, the boy was not motivated by political or religious ideals, but by the desire to emulate Rudakubana who killed three girls aged 6, 7 and 9 in Southport, and injured ten other people.
