A serving police officer admitted making a 999 call claiming a colleague was going to be kidnapped as part of an Isis terror plot, a jury heard.
But Pc Amar Tasaddiq Hussain claims he genuinely believed there was a threat to officers rather than trying to frame an illegal immigrant who was living in the Black Country.
The call, which claimed an officer would be targeted by a 'radical Muslim' with links to Isis called Irfan Ul-Haq at the end of their shift later that night, sparked a major security alert and led to 'unprecedented' measures being put in place by West Midlands Police to protect officers.
Hussain, aged 29, of Yardley, Birmingham, who is suspended from duty, and two other men, Adil Bashir, 26, of Small Heath, Birmingham, and Muhammed Sheikh, 31, of Bordsley Green, Birmingham, deny two counts of conspiring to pervert the course of justice.
On the second day of the trial at Stafford Crown Court last Thursday, Mr Simon Davis, prosecuting, told the jury that Hussain had confessed to making the 999 call.
The prosecution claims the police officer was trying to frame Mr Ul-Haq, who was an illegal immigrant living in Sandwell Road, Walsall, as he had a 'grudge' against him. A friend of Mr Ul-Haq's was running security of Muslim organisation Dawal-E-Islami the men all attended and Hussain felt he should be in charge and targeted him as he was vulnerable due to being an overstayer, the court was told.
Mr Davis said: "When interviewed about the call and about the police investigation, he denied that he had made any report, false or otherwise. He now accepts that he made the call but will, undoubtedly, put his own gloss on how and why the call was made. He may say that he made the call believing the content of it to be true."
The jury also heard from Mr Ul-Haq, who was giving evidence from Pakistan via videolink, having been deported following his arrest over the kidnap claims. He was referred to as 'Irfan the terrorist' in the 999 call and said to have masterminded the plot.
He told the court he had never been involved in terrorism and that Hussain wanted to be in charge of security at the Muslim group.
The trial continues.
