article_snippet.sent: In 2008,  22-year-old Nicky Reilly - who had a mental age of 10 - attempted to carry out a suicide bombing in Exeter after he was contacted by extremists online.
article_snippet.sent: Mentally ill Nicky Reilly (right) was also goaded into carrying out a nail bomb attack in 2008 .
article_snippet.sent: Reilly hoped to kill or wound as many diners as ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Bagdadi could with the crude nail bomb ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Bagdadi had made .
article_snippet.sent: In a display of the tactics outlined by Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley, a man with learning difficulties was coaxed into carrying out a botched restaurant bombing in 2008.
article_snippet.sent: Nicky Reilly, from Plymouth, tried to blow Nicky Reilly up in a busy Giraffe restaurant in Exeter after accessing an extremist website online.
article_snippet.sent: Nicky Reilly was preparing the nail bomb device in a busy Giraffe restaurant in Exeter's toilet when the nail bomb device in the restaurant's toilet went off in Nicky Reilly hands, injuring Nicky Reilly but no one else.
article_snippet.sent: Deputy Chief Constable Tony Melville, who investigated the case, said at the time: 'Nicky Reilly was preyed upon, radicalised, and taken advantage of.'
article_snippet.sent: Reilly's mother Kim told how Reilly's mother Kim had a mental age of 10 and suffered from mental illness.
article_snippet.sent: Reilly's mother Kim said Reilly's mother Kim was an 'easy target, easy prey' for radicalisation.
article_snippet.sent: Judge Mr Justice Calvert-Smith, who jailed Reilly for life for attempted murder, said after the trial: 'There is evidence from materials seized that Reilly's mother Kim became increasingly drawn to violent action in support of fellow Muslims in revenge for perceived persecution, and to the idea of Reilly's mother Kim personally becoming a martyr.'