The trial is being held at the Old Bailey
A JURY retired on Wednesday to consider its verdict into one of the most secretive trials in British legal history.
Erol İncedal, 26, who has Alevi and Kurdish roots, is a law student accused of plotting a Mumbai-style Islamist attack and targeting the former prime minister Tony Blair. He denies the charges.
He was arrested on 13 October last year in a Black Mercedes that was stopped by armed police in Aldgate.
After evidence was heard at the Old Bailey, newspapers in Britain were able to reveal that Mr İncedal was born in Istanbul to a Kurdish father who came from the village of Kürecek, near Malatya in eastern Turkey.
Summing up the trial, the judge reminded the jury of material found on Mr İncedal’s iPhone, which had most of his internet history manually deleted.
According to the Press Association, Mr Justice Nicol told jurors: “You can see from the schedule what had been happening in the weeks before this photograph was taken. The defendant agreed he had taken this picture.
“What attracted him by the synagogue was that it was right next to a mosque and he thought this a good symbol of how people of different faiths could live side by side. He thought about putting it on Facebook but he never did so.”
The jury was sent home a little before 5pm on Wednesday night and was scheduled to resume deliberations at 10am on Thursday morning.