A Muslim convert who threatened to kill Prince Harry has been jailed for three years.

Ashraf Islam, 31, flew into Heathrow from Thailand before checking into a hotel and travelling to Hounslow police station, where he told police of his plot to kill the Prince the next day.

Islam, originally from Belfast and known as Mark David Townley, was arrested at the police station on May 23 last year.

Counter-terrorist police searched his hotel room and seized his computer, although no weapons were found.

Islam, who normally lived in Northern Ireland but had no fixed abode, pleaded guilty to making the threats to kill at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court in May last year.

He was sentenced to three years in prison at Isleworth Crown Court yesterday.