The Kuwaiti national made threatening remarks outside the Israeli embassy [Getty]
A Kuwaiti migrant went on trial Wednesday in a London court charged with planning a knife attack on Israel’s London embassy just days after his UK asylum application was refused.
Abdullah Sabah Albadri, 34, of no fixed address, has denied one count of “preparation of terrorist acts” and two counts of possessing knives in a public place.
He was detained in April 2025 by two police officers moments after an “almost successful” attempt to scale the fence at the Israeli embassy armed with two knives, the Old Bailey was told.
On footage captured by police body cameras, Albardi tells the officers: “I wanna make a crime inside there, why are you stopping me?”
In police interviews, Albadri denied preparing acts of terrorism and said the knives were for personal use as he was homeless.
CCTV footage at the police station captured him saying: “I want to do something to stop the war.”
Prosecutor Catherine Pattison said Albadri was wearing a traditional Arabic scarf covering his face and sunglasses when he “jumped up onto an eight-foot fence”.
“He wanted to send a message, to stop the killing of children, to stop the war,” she said, adding he was referring to the ongoing Israel-Palestinian conflict.
“The prosecution say that Mr Albadri’s intention was to use or threaten serious violence against the Israeli government,” she added.
Albadri had written what prosecutors described as a “martyrdom note”, the court heard.
“I do not know where to go to find a decent life and some honour except to Allah,” the note said.
Pattison said the note was “written by someone who intends to die, or expected to be killed” and is intended to “proclaim a commitment to an ultimate sacrifice – his life”.
Jurors heard Albardi first entered the UK in 2021, arriving in Dover on a small boat from France.
He later left, but re-entered Britain again by a small boat in 2023 and applied for asylum.
His main focus had been on his case, but Pattison said he began to have “other matters on his mind” when his application was refused, calling them “far more sinister”.
