Security tightened for Taylor Swift’s Wembley concerts after ISIS suicide bomb plot at Austria concerts

TAYLOR Swift’s Wembley shows will go ahead with tight security following a suicide plot at her Austria shows.

Three shows were canceled when bomb-making equipment and chemicals were found in the home of a 19-year-old IS fanatic.

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The burly, bearded suspect confessed to targeting Swift fans outside the Ernst Happel Stadium in Vienna.

The Met Police said yesterday that the American singer’s Wembley shows on August 15, 17 and 19 will go ahead.

But it is understood that additional safeguards will be implemented, likely including metal detectors.

Experts warned that the terrorist plan was a “wake-up call”.

Chris Phillips, former head of the UK’s National Terrorism Security Office, said: “Music events are at the peak of terrorist targeting.”

He added: “You have to carry on with business as usual and make sure nothing happens. Terrorists must not be allowed to win. But we have to be alert.”

The teenager, of North Macedonian descent, was arrested at his home in Ternitz, where he lives with his parents.

Authorities said he had stockpiled hydrogen peroxide, used to make TATP explosives, nicknamed “Mother of Satan.”

Detonators, machetes and IS propaganda were also found, along with a blue police light that he may have used to cut through crowds.

The head of domestic intelligence, Omar Haijawi-Pirchner, said: “His aim was to kill himself and a large number of people.”

A 17-year-old who worked at the Vienna stadium and a 15-year-old boy were also detained during Wednesday’s operations.

A source from Swift’s team said “everyone was shaken and devastated.”

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