Moment small boat migrant leapt up a fence and ‘tried to break into London’s Israeli embassy to carry out knife terror attack’
This is the moment a small boat migrant allegedly set out to carry out a knife terror attack on the Israeli embassy in London after his asylum claim was rejected.
Kuwaiti-born Abdullah Albadri was caught by police after jumping over the two-metre fence surrounding the embassy with two knives and a martyrdom note.
The 34-year-old man, seen on CCTV here walking down the road wearing a traditional shemagh headscarf and face-covering sunglasses, suddenly jumped over the railings as he tried to climb to the top of the embassy building in Kensington on April 28 last year.
But he was quickly pulled down by two armed police officers who were a few meters away.
Dramatic images were shown for the first time today as Albadri was on trial accused of planning a terrorist attack to avenge the killing of children in Gaza.
In the clip shown to jurors at the Old Bailey, Albadri was quickly tackled to the ground by officers and allegedly shouted: ‘I’ve got to stop the war, they’re killing babies.’
Abdullah Albadri, seen in body-worn video footage, was stopped by police outside the Israeli embassy in London in April last year.
Kuwait-born Abdullah Albadri arrived in the UK on a small boat in 2021 and applied for permission to remain but was unable to attend a Home Office interview
CCTV showed Albadri walking towards the embassy with his face covered and wearing sunglasses in April 2025
He was then seen climbing the high railings as two police officers approached him.
Albadri was pinned to the ground and taken into police custody. Accused of trying to enter Israeli embassy with knife
The court was also shown police body-worn camera footage of the defendant muttering about knives as he was being arrested.
He was heard asking the arresting police officers: ‘I want to commit a crime inside, why are you stopping me? Why are you stopping me from committing a crime?’
The man with the knife asked the officers ‘why didn’t you let me in?’ he asked and added, ‘I didn’t do what I wanted to do.’
It was stated that the defendant said to the police, “Remember me, I will come again.” ‘I don’t need to hurt anyone anymore.’
PC Libby Chessor was outside the Israeli embassy with her SG 550 carbine rifle and Glock 17 pistol when she saw Albadri walking towards her.
He told the court: ‘He looked very determined and determined as he came towards us. ‘He made a greeting gesture towards us and then climbed the fence.’
Police later discovered he had two red-handled knives, each with a serrated blade about 4 inches long.
They also found a note said to be an Arabic suicide note.
Catherine Pattison, prosecuting, told jurors: ‘The existence and contents of the suspicious martyrdom note, his possession of two knives and the material he downloaded from his mobile phone indicate his intention to use violence against people inside the Israeli embassy and sacrifice his own life in the process, dying ‘for the glory of God’, as he put it.’
Police found an alleged suicide note written in Arabic
The court heard the homeless asylum seeker made a number of attempts to enter the UK.
He arrived in Dover on a small boat in 2021 and applied for permission to remain, but failed to attend the Home Office interview in 2023.
Jurors were told Albadri re-entered Britain on a small boat from France on April 12 last year, just days before the embassy attack.
He was given temporary accommodation in a hotel in Basingstoke and applied for asylum, claiming to be a ‘human rights activist’ who had been arrested in Kuwait in 2011.
On 24 April Albadri told a colleague that the Home Office had rejected his asylum claim and that he had no money to pay for a train ticket to Liverpool to appeal.
It was claimed that he started investigating the location of the Israeli Embassy on the same day and made ‘evil’ plans.
As of April 28, Albadri’s asylum application had been rejected.
Later the same day, he headed to the embassy, claiming that he told his mother that he would be “martyrized in the way of Allah.”
Albadri, of no fixed address, denies preparing for terrorist acts and twice possessing a bladed article in a public place.
The trial continues.
