A MAN has admitted plotting to firebomb a publisher's home days before a book about the Prophet Muhammad was due to be published.
Abbas Taj, of Field Road, Forest Gate, pleaded guilty to conspiring with Abrar Mirza, 23, of Eastfield Road, Walthamstow, to recklessly damage property and endanger life.
Gibson Square publisher Martin Rynja's home, in Lonsdale Square, Islington, was attacked on September 27 last year shortly before the release of the novel The Jewel of Medina.
Fuel was poured through a letter box and set alight.
Ali Beheshti, 41, of Tavistock Gardens, Ilford, pleaded guilty to the same charge at a previous hearing.
The men are due to be sentenced in July.
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