London Underground attacker sentenced to life
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An Islamic State-inspired taxi driver who tried to behead a London Underground passenger has been sent to a high-security mental hospital to begin a life sentence.
Somali-born Muhiddin Mire targeted strangers at random in the ticket hall at Leytonstone Underground station in London on Dec. 5 last year.
The 30-year-old was sentenced Monday at Central London Criminal Court. His attack went viral after a passer-by filmed the incident on his mobile phone whilst shouting out to Mire: "You ain't no Muslim, bruv." The colloquial remark using the local slang term for brother came to symbolize the defiant attitude of Londoners towards attacks.
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The judge ruled that Mire had been motivated by events in Syria, even though he was diagnosed as having paranoid schizophrenia at the time of the offence.