Wednesday, 17 June 2015

Cardiff teen Syed Choudhury pleads guilty to terror charges at Old Bailey faces jail sentence.

A Cardiff man who planned to travel to Syria to fight with Islamic State has pleaded guilty to a terror charge at the Old Bailey.
Syed Choudhury, 19, from the Grangetown area of the city, was arrested last December.
He had come to the attention of anti-terrorism officers in July when he displayed a banner at a demonstration on the Gaza conflict in Cardiff stating: "Islamic State will bring peace to the Middle East".
The teenager was standing next to known Islamic fundamentalist and Royal Mail worker Sajid Idris, 31, who was arrested in the same dawn raids and has links to Cardiff-born Islamic State fighters in Syria.
The court heard he fell under the influence of "older men who he regarded as more learned than him" after he left home in Bradford to go to college in Cardiff.
Click on the link below to see the full set of images from the day that I took this image of Choudhury.


 http://www.jimwoodphotojournalist.net/2014/07/ful-edit-from-pro-palestinian-protest.html






Sunday, 14 June 2015

In to battle with Sir John Saville's Household and the Medieval Free Company in Leominster.

Today saw the grounds of the Leominster Priory turned into a warzone by members of Sir John Saville's Household and the Medieval Free Company of Re-enactors. The Sir John Saville's Household portray a medieval household from the period 1450-1500 while The Medieval Free Company is a 15th century living history group set in the year 1471, portraying everyday life at the time of the Wars of the Roses. Today they played the parts of  Yorkists attacking Lancastrian King's soldiers of Owen Tudor supporting King Henry VI. Unless captioned otherwise images below depict Sir John Saville's Household. To find out more about both groups of Re-enactors check out the links below. 

http://www.savilehousehold.co.uk/

http://www.medievalfreeco.org.uk/




Piper Keith Wellings leads the Yorkists in to battle.


The Yorkists cannon position.

Lancastrian soldiers move to defend the pallisade.

The Yorkists and Lancastrians meet on the battle fields in a clatter of Pikes


Yorkists fire their Cannons..

Sir John Saville's Household and Medieval Free Company feel the earth shake as the Cannon blasts.

Hand to hand fighting gets intense with the Sir John Saville's Household.

Sir John Saville's Household displaying the brutality of hand to hand combat

Falling to death. Portrayed by Sir John Saville's Household

Yorkist Archer fires a arrow. Portrayed by the Medieval Free Company.