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Man sentenced for car bomb attack
POLICE, traffic wardens and club staff in the West End have been praised for their “great alertness” which prevented multiple deaths in a car bomb attack.
After jailing an NHS hospital doctor for a minimum of 32 years for terrorist offences, Mr Justice Mackay, at Woolwich Crown Court, said the public owed a debt of gratitude to “so many” who prevented carnage.
Mass civilian casualties were avoided in Haymarket and at Glasgow Airport when bombs failed to detonate, it was revealed during the tree-month trial of Bilal Abdullah.
Abdullah, 29, who worked at a hospital in Paisley and lived in Glasgow, was given two life sentences and branded a “dangerous religious bigot and extremist” by the judge on Wednesday after being convicted of conspiracy to murder.
The Tiger Tiger nightspot in Haymarket was the first target last June.
Prosecutor Jonathan Laidlaw, QC, said that a quick-thinking manager at the popular venue ordered an evacuation of the 556 customers.
Abdullah, an Iraqi, and an accomplice had parked two Mercedes cars near the club, each filled with gas cannisters, fuel and nails, all wired to mobile phones, which failed to detonate.
The following day Bilal and Kafeel Ahmed, 28, also a doctor, left a jeep containing explosives at the gates of Glasgow Airport. That too failed to explode but the fireball is created claimed the life of Ahmed.
Another doctor, Mohammed Asha, 28, from Staffordshire, was cleared of any criminal responsibility. |
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