Two men drummed up support for Islamic State by handing out leaflets in Oxford Street, the Old Bailey heard today.

Muslim convert Ibrahim Anderson also had details of how to travel to Syria to fight for the terrorists when his home was searched by police in December 2014, the jury was told.

Anderson, 38, and Shah Jahah Khan, 62, both from Luton, are charged under the Terrorism Act of inviting support for a banned organisation.

Anderson is also accused of possessing information likely to be useful for the preparation of, or carrying out, an act of terrorism, when police searched his property in December last year.

Mark Seymour, prosecuting, told the jury the two men were part of a group that put up a trestle table outside Topshop in August 2014.

They approached members of the public and distributed leaflets "encouraging support for a caliphate which had been announced by IS," he said.

"IS is a proscribed organisation and inviting support is prohibited by law and these defendants would have been well aware of what they were doing."

A week later police searched Anderson's house and found his HP mini notebook computer which contained three images involving instructions for travelling to Syria to support jihad, the court was told.

Both defendants deny the charges.

The case continues.