Facebook Twitter Pinterest Device components recovered from the explosive device left by Ahmed Hassan on a tube train. Hassan told the Old Bailey jury that this had been a lie, intended to generate sympathy and to secure asylum status in the UK. Giving evidence in near-fluent English, Hassan insisted that he had modified the ingredients so that they would burn, rather than detonate. But he struggled to offer a reason for having planted the device on a packed, rush-hour District line tube train on 15 September last year. At one point Hassan had referred to Tony Blair.

Source: The Guardian March 16, 2018 11:29 UTC