White Muslim convert Richard Dart has been jailed for six years for plotting a terror attack in former military repatriation town Wootton Bassett. His accomplices were jailed for four years and six months and nine years and nine months.
Today the sentencing process, which could take until tomorrow, began at the Old Bailey.
Prosecutor Jonathan Laidlaw QC told the court:
"The method employed as the police, with the help of computer experts, would subsequently discover, involved Dart and Mahmood sitting together at a computer and opening a Word document on the computer to conduct what in effect was a silent conversation.
"Having had that discussion by typing into the document, the document was then deleted by one or other of the defendants, without having been saved and as far as the defendants were concerned the document would therefore be destroyed forever.
"They plainly were under the misapprehension that the text once deleted could never be recovered."
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