Update to this story.

Via IBT:

 Six Islamic extremists who pleaded guilty to plotting a bomb attack on an English Defence League rally have been jailed for up to 19 and a half years.

Jewel Uddin, 26, Omar Khan, 27, and Mohammed Hasseen, 23, Zohaib Ahmed, 22, Mohammed Saud, 22, and Anzal Hussain, 24, admitted preparing an act of terrorism between 1 May and 4 July 2012.

The group planned to attack the far-right group using homemade bombs, guns, knives and machetes during a demonstration in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, on 30 June last year.

The Old Bailey heard that if the men had carried out their attack, it would have sparked a “tit-for-tat spiral of violence and terror”.

The men’s plans failed only because they turned up to the rally in Dewsbury too late. Their plot was only discovered by police afterwards by “sheer luck” after their car filled with weapons was randomly stopped by officers on the way back from Birmingham. The vehicle was found to be uninsured and was impounded.

Khan, Uddin and Ahmed were sentenced to 19-and-a-half years each in jail, with a five-year extension on licence.

Hasseen, Hussain and Saud were each sentenced to 18 years and nine months, with a five-year extension on licence.

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