Inspired

...They all either had been born in the United Kingdom or had been born in Bangladesh and come to this country a number of years before these events.
...Usman Khan and Nazam Hussain were Pakistani in origin and their families came from the same village in Kashmir.
... engaged actively in proselytising their radical Islamism in public by preaching, a process known as Da’wah. By so doing, as they were fully aware, they came to the attention of the security services.
...They would initially operate in Kashmir but later may return to the UK and may commit acts of terror in this jurisdiction, though it was not a plan that they should do so.
...the only ideas which the crown say crystallised as intentions, which were the subject of any preparatory acts, were in respect of the madrassa and the placing of a small, but potentially lethal, explosive device, a pipe bomb, in a toilet in the London Stock Exchange.
...Chowdhury, Shah Rahman, Usman Khan, Shahjahan and Nazam Hussain have written to me that they now repent of those views and Desai has, through his counsel, expressed the wish to go on a deradicalisation programme whilst in custody. That is welcome, but the sincerity or long term nature of that stated contrition is more relevant for those who will have to manage their sentences than for me in passing them.
...In my judgment they are more serious jihadis than the others. They were working to a long term agenda, no less deadly in its potential than the potential for damage and injury the subject of the short term intentions of the others. They were intent on obtaining training for themselves and others whom they would recruit and, as such, were working to a more ambitious and more serious jihadist agenda. In my judgment, these offenders would remain, even after a lengthy term of imprisonment, of such a significant risk that the public could not be adequately protected by their being managed on licence in the community, subject to conditions, by reference to a preordained release date. In my judgment the safety of the public in respect of these offenders can only adequately be protected if their release on licence is decided upon, at the earliest, at the conclusion of the minimum term which I fix today .
.. Usman Khan, in my judgment he was marginally more central to the project than Nazam Hussain and marginally below Shahjahan. In addition, I must make a small reduction to reflect his youth. Mr. Justice Wilkie 2012

Mr Bennathan put the matter on behalf of Khan in this way. At the time of the offence, he was a 19 year old, whose ambition was to bring Sharia law to Pakistan controlled Kashmir, his ancestral home. The madrassa had not been built (and there was no evidence that there was any real funding to build it); he had no access to terrorist training and it was highly unrealistic to suppose that the authorities in Pakistan would allow a teenager from Stoke to impose Sharia law or run a training school for terrorists. 
64. Conversation about bombing public houses in Stoke (in any event, not included within the allegation in the indictment) was no more than angry talk within some 4 minutes of young men responding to racist incidents in Stokeof which was over in a day and it would be speculative to use snatches of recorded conversation as showing a high level of sophistication: it was equally consistent with admiration for the superior motivation and determination of the London defendants who, at one stage (as described by Mr Edis) were “being held in a degree of reverence by the Stoke defendants”. Although Khan and other were intent on going to Pakistan the following month, there was no basis for concluding that they were in a position to put any plan (let alone terrorist training) into place. Overheard assertions were no more than this young man ‘bigging up’ what they intended to do in the hope of recruiting assistance. Court of appeal 2013

I fatti si svolsero attorno al 2010 e le sentenze furono emesse tra il 2012 e il 2013.
Negli stessi anni i nostri investigatori avevano inquadrato personaggi come Anas el Abboubi e i protagonisti dei cenacoli virtuali attivi tra Sardegna, Marche e Liguria. Gente che poi partì per la Siria e oggi pare intenzionata a tornare in Italia.
C'è da ricordare inoltre, che il giudice del primo grado aveva a disposizione solo una piccola parte del materiale raccolto da MI5 nel corso del monitoraggio. E che i percorsi di deradicalizzazione all'epoca erano prevalentemente sperimentali.
L'incidente di London Bridge è conseguenza naturale di una situazione complessa.
A Wilkie va riconosciuto il merito di aver compreso già allora, i rischi connessi a semplici parole ed intenzioni quando queste sono manifestate in ottica di lungo periodo.
La corte di appello è giunta a valutazioni differenti, forse perchè troppo concentrata sulla differenziazione tra crimini e gruppi.
Ragazzi nati e cresciuti in Europa, o arrivati in tenera età, che ad un certo punto dell'adolescenza cercano di riprendersi l'identità perduta, o che non sentono propria, attraverso una connessione all'attualità controversa dei Paesi di origine. Oppure maturano rancore contro i Paesi che li ospitano.
Si tratta di una realtà che riguarda in prevalenza i musulmani ma non solo.
Hardeep Singh, giovane sikh cresciuto in Italia, subì un processo di radicalizzazione via Internet e anche sul nostro territorio secondo l'agenzia investigativa indiana, per poi essere addestrato a Dubai e andare a colpire in Punjab.
Su soggetti con questo tipo di profilo, personaggi del calibro di Al Awlaki e Anjem Choudari, che ebbe contatti con Usman Khan, hanno gioco facile.
Gli apparati investigativi e di sicurezza hanno raggiunto livelli di eccellenza nell'azione di prevenzione e contrasto. La politica deve ancora impegnarsi in maniera concreta per risolvere il problema alla radice.