Brusthom Ziamani, 19, was arrested in an east London street carrying a 12inch knife and a hammer in a rucksack. He had earlier researched the location of army cadet bases in the south east of the capital.
Ziamani who was born in London to a Congolese parents, has been jailed for 22 years for hatching a plot to behead a British soldier inspired by the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby.
The court was told how he had earlier shown his ex-girlfriend weapons, described Fusilier Rigby's killer Michael Adebolajo as a "legend".
Ziamani was found guilty last month of preparing an act of terrorism and was sentenced by Judge Timothy Pontius.
According to judge Timothy Pontius:
"A realistic and sensible assessment of the
whole of the evidence leads inescapably to the conclusion that this defendant, had he not by sheer good fortune been spotted and
stopped by the police on the street in east London, would have carried out the intention he had so graphically expressed to his ex-girlfriend just a few hours before."
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