Terror scout jailed over reconnaissance of TV channel before ‘planned attack’
A terror scout has been jailed for three-and-a-half years for spying on a dissident Iranian television channel before a “planned attack” on British soil.
Magomed-Husejn Dovtaev, 31, carried out hostile reconnaissance for others unknown at the London headquarters of Persian-language television channel Iran International in February.
After a trial at the Old Bailey, the Chechnya-born Austrian was found guilty of trying to collect information for terrorist purposes.
Mitigating, Paul Keleher KC said there was every possibility Dovtaev was a “useful idiot” employed to go Iran International to provoke a security response and “put the wind
