Aweys Shikhey was arrested as he prepared to board a flight at Stansted

A delivery driver who discussed a gun attack on the Queen and football supporters has been jailed for eight years for trying to join Islamic State.

Aweys Shikhey, 38, had talked of gunning down Jewish people leaving “the game” in Tottenham, north London, and also talked about killing “the old woman Elizabeth”.

Barnaby Jameson, QC, prosecuting, told the Old Bailey that the game reference was about White Hart Lane, the home of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.

Shikhey, a Somali refugee with Dutch citizenship who lived in north London, took out a £10,000 loan with Barclays Bank, telling them he was planning to get married. Shikhey, who already had two wives, was actually sending the money to Raaqiya Hussein, his online girlfriend in Norway, so they