Teen sentenced for planning Southport-inspired bomb attack at Oasis Cardiff show

A teenager has been sentenced for planning a bomb attack on an Oasis concert.

McKenzie Morgan, an 18-year-old, from Cwmbran, Torfaen, has been sentenced to 14 months in a young offenders’ institute after pleading guilty to possession of an al-Qaeda training manual.

Prosecutor Corinne Bramwell said Morgan was infatuated and inspired by the fatal attack at a children’s Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport in 2024, carried out by Axel Rudakubana.

Morgan planned to bomb the opening night of Oasis’ long-awaited reunion tour, which was held at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium on July 4, per BBC News, and said he wanted to carry out a “Rudakubana-style attack”.

He also reportedly claimed he was trying to make ricin (a highly dangerous toxin) and sent an image of a large knife for sale to a friend, asking “would this work?”

He was initially arrested on June 2 after the police were contacted by an individual who was worried by what they had seen on Snapchat.

Morgan was then released on bail but his phone was seized, and police discovered several banned al-Qaeda documents, including instructions on how to carry out a knife attack, as well as images of Rudakubana.

He was rearrested on 19 June 2025, charged and appeared in court two days later.

He told police that he searched for the al-Qaeda training manual, saved it and then read it, and admitted a single charge of possessing a terrorist manual.

The Crown Prosecution Service said this was a document likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism.

Rudakubana also injured 10 others in his attack, including eight children, and was later given a minimum prison sentence of 52 years at the start of 2025.

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