A man has been convicted of preparing a terror attack in London around Britain's Remembrance Day last year, local media reported Monday.

Nadir Syed, 22, from west London, was arrested hours after buying a knife in November last year, days before the Remembrance Sunday.

He was convicted last week in a trial at Woolwich Crown Court.

Prosecutors said Syed was obsessed with the murder of British soldier Lee Rigby, who was hacked to death by two extremists in south London in 2013, British Sky News reported Monday.

Syed planned to carry out a similar attack around last year's Remembrance Day, and he was "unnaturally interested in murders and beheadings," the court was told.

He had attempted to travel to Syria in January last year but was stopped at the airport. Endit

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