London's Old Bailey court has heard that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair may have been the intended target of a deadly terror plot.
The trial of the suspect accused of Googling "bin Laden", "jihad" and "Syria" is the first of it's kind in the United Kingdom because the evidence will largely be kept secret.
The suspect had the address of a property owned by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair in his car when he was stopped, a prosecutor says.
Erol Incedal was held for a traffic offence in his black Mercedes in 2013 and a scrap of paper with an address for Blair and his wife was found in his glasses case, Richard Whittam told the court.
During the search, a listening device was planted in the car.
"You may think that this address does have some significance", the prosecutor told the jury, although he added this did not mean Incedal had "settled on a specific target".
Blair still has a public role as a Middle East peace envoy and regularly gives lectures and takes part in conferences.
He recently called for Britain not to rule out sending ground troops to take on Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria.
Blair has portrayed the conflict there as part of a wider global problem with radical Islam.
It was not immediately clear which address for Blair Incedal allegedly had.
Incedal is accused of "intending to commit or preparing acts of terrorism" and possessing a document about bomb-making.
He denies the charges.
The trial of 26-year-old Incedal began on Monday - the first under new rules that will make almost all of the proceedings secret except for opening statements, the verdict and sentence.
Prosecutors had wanted to hold the trial entirely out of the public eye due to the sensitive subject matter but an appeal court ruling earlier this year some information should be made available in the interests of open justice.
SBS with agencies
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