A terrorist suspect who called himself “Captain the illiterate” planned a suicide bomb attack in London to kill “smart people,” a court was told.

Mohammed Kamal Hussain, 28, was collecting recipes for making bombs to launch an attack last summer and had downloaded a picture of the Queen, Kingston crown court was told.

Mr Hussain, from Whitechapel, east London, told his contacts he wanted to arrange a “barbecue party” — said to be code for an attack — and planned to “do something big,” Simon Davis, for the prosecution, told the jury.

Using the name “Captain the illiterate”, which he told police was missing the word “of”, Mr Hussain told a female contact: “I’m a simple man . . . I hate the smart people.”