Would-be shoe bomber agrees to testify for cut in sentence A would-be shoe bomber has become the first UK terrorist to have his sentence cut after co-operating with prosecutors and agreeing to give evidence against a terror suspect in a US trial. Saajid Muhammad Badat, from Gloucester, was jailed for 13 years in 2005 after he admitted to plotting to explode a shoe bomb on a transatlantic flight in December 2001 at the same time as fellow bomber Richard Reid. Badat, 33, changed his mind days before the planned attack, after which he cut links to Pakistan and Afghanistan. The dismantled bomb was discovered by police two years later at his parent's home. The CPS today revealed that Badat had his sentence cut to 11 years by a judge in 2009 after considering the "valuable assistance" he had provided to counter terrorism police in the UK and the FBI. The sentencing deal was kept secret until today, when the trial of Adis Medunjanin, who is charged with an alleged al-Qa'ida plot to bomb the New York subway, opened in Brooklyn. This is the first time a UK convicted terrorist has agreed to give evidence in the US using an agreement under the Serious and Organised Crime and Police Act 2005, according to the Crime Prosecution Service (CPS). Ms Hemming said Badat "fully co-operated with investigators" at Scotland Yard and in the FBI while in prison and "provided information of overwhelming importance in relation to investigations they were conducting." She added: "Badat has helped with investigations in this country, he continues to co-operate and has agreed to testify in other trials if called upon." Badat's arrest in 2003 came as a huge shock to his family and wider community among who he was respected as an academically gifted, devout, kind young man. The trial revealed how he attended military training camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan despite winning places at Imperial College and City University to study optometry. He met British shoe bomber Richard Reid in Afghanistan. In December 2001, Reid tried to ignite a shoe bomb on an American Airlines flight from Paris to Miami. He was jailed for life without parole in the US. Badat returned from Afghanistan with a similar suicide mission, but he changed his mind and returned to the UK - still wearing the bomb on his feet.