A London Woolwich Crown Court, on Friday, sentenced Darren Osborne to 43 years in prison for driving a van into pedestrians near a mosque in north London’s Finsbury Park.
Osborne,48, killed a 51-year-old man Makram Ali and injured nine others in the late-night attack in June 2017.
Osborne, from the Welsh capital of Cardiff, was convicted of terrorism-related murder and attempted murder, despite his denial of the charges.
He drove into a crowd of worshippers in a van outside a mosque in the Finsbury Park area of London in June 19, 2017.
The judge referred to his defence, that a man called Dave, was in fact driving the van, as “pathetic”.
Osborne, from Cardiff, became radicalised over four weeks in 2017 after watching a television programme about a child sex ring scandal involving a gang of mainly Muslim men in northern England.
Prosecutors said they were “clear throughout that this was a terrorist attack”.
Unemployed “loner” Osborne had pleaded not guilty, telling London’s Woolwich Crown Court that a man called “Dave” was driving at the time.
However, witnesses recalled Osborne saying: “I’ve done my job, you can kill me now” and “at least I had a proper go” to members of the public in the immediate aftermath of the attack.
The jury of eight women and four men took one hour to convict the father-of-four.