Pakistan, May 30 -- An Austrian court on Thursday sentenced a 21-year-old man who admitted planning a foiled Islamist attack on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna in 2024 to 15 years in prison, finding him guilty of various, mainly terrorism-related offences.

Beran A, whose last name has not been made public in accordance with Austrian privacy rules, was arrested on August 7, 2024, the day before the first of three planned concerts by the US pop star in the Austrian capital.

All three dates were then cancelled, to the dismay of fans and of Swift, who wrote afterwards that it was "devastating." While crowds of disappointed fans sang together in Vienna then to console themselves, neither Swift nor any "Swifties" appeared at the trial in Wie...