The British Metropolitan police welcomed Thursday the conviction of two university students who had plotted for a terror attack on the streets of London.

The terror cell's 22-year-old ringleader, Tarik Hassane, and 21-year-old Suhaib Majeed, were convicted Wednesday of conspiring to commit a terrorist murder in support of Daesh.

The foiled attack targeted the Shepherds Bush Police Station and the Parachute Regiment Territorial Army Center in White City, in west London.

"They were planning to target police or military personnel before escaping on a moped, but members of the public also could have been victims had their plans not been thwarted," CNN quoted Commander Dean Haydon, head of the Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command, as having said.

Source : MENA