A Sunbury teenager is awaiting sentencing after being found guilty of planting a bomb on a Tube train at Parsons Green, injuring 29 people.

Ahmed Hassan Mohammed Ali was convicted of attempted murder and using the chemical compound TATP (triacetone triperoxide) to cause an explosion likely to endanger life by a jury on Thursday March 1

The 18-year-old, of Cavendish Road, is appearing at the Old Bailey on Friday (March 23) to be sentenced.

His eight-day trial went through details of how an Iraqi refugee went from being student of the year at Brooklands College in Weybridge to plotting a mass murder.

The jury was shown CCTV footage of the explosion , and a 'fireball' which ripped through the packed Tube train.

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Available to download from the App Store or Google Play for Android .</s>A teenage Iraqi asylum seeker who planted a homemade bomb on a rush-hour London underground train has been jailed for life with a recommendation that he serve a minimum of 34 years.



Ahmed Hassan, who claims to be 18, was convicted of attempted murder after the device partially detonated at Parsons Green, west London, in September last year.



“Your intention that morning was to kill as many members of the British public as possible,” Mr Justice Haddon-Cave told Hassan. “I am satisfied that you were determined to cause as much death and carnage as possible.”



Hassan had carried out the attack with “ruthless determination and almost military efficiency”, said the judge. “There is no doubt in my mind that you are a very dangerous and devious individual.”



More than 50 people were injured when a fireball swept through the carriage, burning passengers’ skin, hair and clothing, or suffered crush injuries as passengers fell over each other while trying to escape.

Survivors spoke of feeling their faces being simultaneously burned and cut by flying glass.

On Friday, before Hassan was sentenced, the Old Bailey heard that survivors had sustained severe psychological trauma, and a number still avoided crowds and public transport, had difficulty sleeping and concentrating, and had a fear of fire and flames.



In a victim impact statement read to the court, Stephen Nash

described how he did not stop shaking for a week and had since been forced to give up his social work job because he felt unable to board an underground train to come into the city.



Another, Lucinda Glazebrook, said she suffered from post-traumatic stress. “I believe I am a changed person. I thought I was going to die.”



Aimee Colville said: “This incident has impacted on me emotionally, I always think every day is the last day.”

Alison Morgan, prosecuting, told the court that Hassan intended to commit mass murder on a crowded tube train.



He was living with foster parents in Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey, and admitted making the bomb by creating triacetone triperoxide (TATP), a powerful but unstable explosive. He made an initiator from a halogen bulb, match heads and a timer.



Around the device he had packed 2.2kg of shrapnel, including five kitchen knives, two screwdrivers, nails and screws.



Hassan had denied attempted murder and causing an explosion, telling the London court that he had made the bomb because he was “very bored, very depressed, very confused” and wanted to draw attention to himself.



The jury heard that both Hassan’s parents were dead by the time he was six, and he told one of his college lecturers that he believed he had “a duty to hate Britain”, which he blamed for the death of his father in an air raid on Baghdad.



He had also complained about the ongoing airstrikes against Iraq, sending a text message to the same lecturer in which he said: “Your country continues to bomb my people daily.”



The court heard that Hassan had told Home Office immigration officials he was abducted by Islamic State in Iraq, and had spent three months “being trained how to kill”.



He had then made his way to Britain via Istanbul, Paris and Calais, entering the country in October 2015 as a 16-year-old stowaway in the back of a lorry.



Hassan told the court, however, that he had had no contact with Islamic State, and had fabricated this account in an attempt to win sympathy and secure leave to remain in the UK.



The judge said he believed both that Hassan had been associated with Isis, and that he was older than 18.



After his trial, it emerged that he had been a subject of the Prevent counter-radicalisation programme, and appeared to be making good progress after receiving educational and mental health support. Police say they believe him to be a “cunning and devious” individual who intended to kill a large number of people.</s>London: Teenager Ahmed Hassan was sentenced on Friday to life in prison with a minimum term of 34 years for planting a bomb on a packed rush hour train at Parsons Green in London in September last year. Hassan, 18, was described as "dangerous and devious" by a judge. His home-made device partially exploded during London`s rush hour on September 15, 2017, injuring 51 people, Xinhua reported.

The Iraqi asylum seeker, from Surrey, was on Friday found guilty of attempted murder. Before the attack, he had been referred to a government de-radicalisation programme. Hassan was sentenced by the judge in line with section 30 of the Terrorism Act 2008.

He was arrested at the Port of Dover on September 16, 2017 and was charged six days later with the above offence.

Deputy Assistant Commissioner Dean Haydon, said, "Hassan built a home-made bomb packed full of shrapnel that was designed to kill, maim and injure as many people as he could. It was only through good fortune that it didn`t fully detonate. Had it done so, I have little doubt that we would have been dealing with many fatalities."

Chief Superintendent John Conaghan, who is from British Transport Police, said, "We thoroughly welcome the lengthy sentence that Hassan has been handed by the court today. In September last year, he put Londoners through a frightening ordeal when he left his home-made bomb on a District Line train."

"His appalling attack could have claimed many lives on that busy rush hour train. Thankfully, no one was killed and his imprisonment will prevent him from posing any further threat to the public."

Prosecutors at the sentencing hearing said there would have been "serious harm, if not fatality" if the bomb -- packed with 2 kg of screwdrivers, knives, nuts and bolts -- had fully detonated.

In a January 2016 immigration interview, Hassan told British officials he had been in contact with the Islamic State group and had been "trained to kill". The trial also heard he blamed Britain for the death of his father in Iraq.</s>LONDON (AP) — A teenage Iraqi asylum-seeker who told police he had been trained by the Islamic State group has been sentenced to at least 34 years in prison for bombing a London subway train and injuring 51 people.

A judge gave 18-year-old Ahmed Hassan Friday a life sentence with a requirement that he serve a minimum term of 34 years. A jury last week convicted Hassan of attempted murder in the September 2017 attack.

Judge Charles Haddon-Cave called Hassan “a dangerous and devious individual” and said he plotted the subway bombing with “ruthless determination” while pretending to be a model asylum-seeker.

The homemade bomb he placed on a packed London Underground train only partially detonated at Parsons Green station. Prosecutors said there probably would have been fatalities if the device had functioned properly.</s>
• Ahmed Hassan, 18, has been jailed for a bomb attack on the London Underground.
• He was convicted of attempted murder last week for the September 2017 attack.
• The bomb failed to explode properly, meaning victims were injured rather than killed.



The man who planted a bomb on a packed London Underground train last year has been sentenced to 34 years in prison for attempted murder.

Ahmed Hassan, 18, left a home-made explosive on a District Line service on the morning of September 15, 2017.

The device, stuffed with screws and shrapnel, exploded at Parsons Green station in West London, but failed to detonate fully.

As a result, it caused only minor injuries, rather than the mass casualties that a full detonation would have achieved.

Hassan, who came to Britain as a refugee from Iraq, was convicted of attempted murder last week at the Old Bailey criminal court in Central London. He was given his sentence on Friday.

Hassan received a life sentence, with a stipulation that he must serve at least 34 years before being eligible for reelase.

The judge in the case, Mr Justice Haddon-Cave, told Hassan that he had been driven by his hatred of Britain, and that he cynically exploited the asylum and care systems to attack the country which gave him shelter.

Hassan left the bomb on the District Line train and got off one stop before it detonated, which Haddon-Cave said was because he was not mentally prepared for martyrdom, and preferred to "save your own skin."

After the explosion, Hassan tried to flee the country. He got as far as the departure lounge at Dover ferry port before he was arrested.

During his escape attempt, Hassan tried to evade detection by ditching his phone, breaking his memory card into tiny pieces, and hiding it on a bus, using only cash and changing outfits — but was still tracked down.</s>LONDON — An 18-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker was sentenced on Friday to life in prison in Britain after he was convicted of attempted murder in the botched bombing last September of a rush-hour train on the London Underground, which injured 30 people.

Ahmed Hassan was convicted last week after he left the bomb that partially exploded one stop after he had disembarked. The explosion triggered a stampede that injured tens of passengers.

The judge in the case said that Mr. Hassan had constructed a bucket bomb filled with screwdrivers, knives, nuts, bolts and explosives and detonated it on a train carriage with 93 passengers, hoping “to kill as many members of the British public as possible.”

Speaking at England’s Old Bailey central criminal court in London, Judge Charles Haddon-Cave called Mr. Hassan a “dangerous and devious individual” who had let down the country that gave him shelter, the foster charity that cared for him and the college he attended.

Hassan, who will have to serve a minimum of 34 years, had benefited from “every kindness” since arriving in the Britain in October 2015, yet was consumed with “dark thoughts” against the country.

The judge said he believed Mr. Hassan had trained with the Islamic State in Iraq.

Mr. Hassan told jurors that he did not intend to hurt people and that he was “bored and stressed” and wanted to start a fire. “It became kind of a fantasy in my head. I was thinking about it,” he said.</s>A Sunbury teenager has been jailed for life after being found guilty of planting a bomb on a Tube train at Parsons Green, injuring 29 people.

Ahmed Hassan Mohammed Ali was convicted of attempted murder and using the chemical compound TATP (triacetone triperoxide ) to cause an explosion likely to endanger life by a jury on Thursday March 15.

The 18-year-old, of Cavendish Road, was ordered to serve a minimum of 34 years at his sentencing at the Old Bailey on Friday (March 23).

Mr Justice Haddon-Cave said to Ali: "Your intention that morning was to kill as many members of the British public as possible by planting the IED on a busy commuter Tube train."

Had his bomb fully exploded, there would have been "numerous fatalities’’, he said.

In a victim impact statement read out to the court by prosecutor Alison Morgan, commuter Stephen Nash said he had to give up his job as a social worker due to his fear of getting on the Tube since the incident in September 2017, in which he suffered severe burns to his head and ears as well as blisters to his mouth and nose.

Mr Nash said: “Since the attack I have not used the Tube.

“I believed I was going to die so, due to fear, I don’t use the Tube. I don’t go into London any more. I don’t like being amongst crowds.”

Another victim, Lucinda Glazebrook, suffered superficial burns to her face and hands, and has been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.

In her statement, also read by Ms Morgan, she said: "I view myself as a changed person. I believed I was going to die."

She told how she was plagued by disturbing images of the bomb exploding and the face of Hassan.

She said: "When this happens I feel frightened and experience physical reactions including palpitations and breathlessness."

Ali's eight-day trial went through details of how an Iraqi refugee went from being student of the year at Brooklands College in Weybridge to plotting a mass murder.

Keep up to date with the latest news from around the county via the free Get Surrey app.

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Available to download from the App Store or Google Play for Android .</s>A teenage asylum-seeker who detonated a bomb on a rush hour Tube train has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 34 years.

Described by Mr Justice Haddon-Cave as "very dangerous and devious", Ahmed Hassan had his head bowed and his eyes closed as he was handed a life sentence.

He was found guilty earlier this month of the attempted murder of 93 people who escaped when a fireball engulfed a District Line Tube carriage at Parsons Green on 15 September last year.

A jury rejected his explanation that he only wanted to act out a fantasy like the Tom Cruise film Mission: Impossible and convicted him of multiple attempted murder.

The 18-year-old pretended to engage with the anti-terrorism Prevent scheme as he plotted mass murder in the capital, the court heard.

He created a bomb with 400g of "Mother of Satan" explosives and 2.2kg of shrapnel while his unsuspecting foster parents were on holiday in Blackpool.

"It must have come as a disappointment that the carnage you hope to create had not occurred," the judge said during sentencing on Friday.

The judge said it was "sheer luck" that the main charge did not fully detonate, and said he was satisfied that the offence of attempted murder was an act of terrorism.

Hassan plotted his attack with "ruthless determination and almost military efficiency while pretending to be a model asylum seeker", the court heard.

The judge added: "Your intention that morning was to kill as many members of the British public as possible.

"I'm satisfied you were determined to create as much death and carnage that day as possible."

On the morning of the attack, Hassan left his home and caught a train to Wimbledon carrying his bomb inside a Lidl bag.

He set the timer on the District Line and got off one stop before the bomb partially exploded on the floor of the carriage at Parsons Green.

He was motivated by Islamic State extremism, "deep-seated hatred" of Britain, revenge for the death of his father and anger at continued bombing in Iraq, the judge said.

For nearly two years, the highly intelligent college student had lived a "double life", he said.

Hassan had been shown "every kindness" since he arrived in Britain yet harboured "dark thoughts" and significant hatred and animosity towards the country that took him in.

The court heard Hassan had arrived in Britain illegally in 2015 and told officials he had trained with IS in Iraq. He was also older than he purported to be.

Hassan was referred by Barnardo's and Surrey social services to Prevent, but kept his murderous plans a secret.

In what the judge said was a "remarkable act of cynicism", he used his student of the year award of a £20 Amazon voucher to buy one of the key chemicals online.

The night before the bombing, his foster father Ron Jones went to find out why Hassan was not sleeping, unaware he was sitting next to the highly unstable TATP explosives.

Some 51 people were injured in the explosion - many suffering burns but others suffering crush injuries in the stampede to get off the platform.

A review of Hassan's dealings with Prevent is under way.</s>Ahmed Hassan who planted the Parsons Green Tube bomb which injured 51 passengers has been sentenced to life in jail with a minimum term of 34 years for planting the Parsons Green Tube bomb which injured 51 passengers The 18-year-old Iraqi asylum pretended to engage with the anti-terrorism Prevent scheme as he plotted to cause carnage in the capital. He made a bomb with 400g of "Mother of Satan" explosives and 2.2kg of shrapnel while his unsuspecting foster parents were on holiday in Blackpool. The Old Bailey heard he wanted to avenge the death of his father in Iraq and was "disappointed" when the bomb only partly detonated in a huge fireball.

A jury deliberated for just over four hours to reject his explanation that he only wanted to act out a fantasy like the Tom Cruise film Mission: Impossible. The photography student, who claimed to aspire to be the new David Attenborough, will be sentenced for attempted murder by Mr Justice Haddon-Cave later. Following his arrival in Britain in 2015, Hassan told Home Office officials he had been trained to kill by Islamic State. The court had heard he was referred by Barnardo's and Surrey social services to Prevent but kept his murderous plans a secret. Hassan used his student of the year award of a £20 Amazon voucher to buy one of the key chemicals online. The night before the bombing, his foster father Ron Jones went to find out why Hassan was not sleeping, unaware he was sitting next to the highly unstable TATP explosives. On the morning of September 15 last year, Hassan left his home and caught a train to Wimbledon carrying his bomb inside a Lidl bag.

He set the timer in Wimbledon then got off the train one stop before the bomb partially exploded on the floor of the carriage at Parsons Green. Twenty-three passengers suffered burns, with some describing their hair catching fire and their clothes melting in the blast. And 28 more suffered cracked ribs and other crush injuries in the stampede to get out of the platform via a narrow stairway. Meanwhile, Hassan destroyed his phone and changed into a Chelsea shirt as he fled London with more than £2,000 in cash but was picked up by police at the Port of Dover the next day. Hassan's foster parents Penny and Ron Jones, who were awarded an MBE in 2010, did not give evidence in the trial. Afterwards they said authorities should have warned them to look out for signs of radicalisation. Mrs Jones told ITV News: "I am cross with him for what he's done, and that he's done this in my house makes me feel very, very betrayed, I can't help that. Because he's such a bright and intelligent child, he'd got a good future ahead of him." Commander Dean Haydon, head of Scotland Yard's Counter Terrorism Command, said he was "intelligent and articulate" but also "devious and cunning in equal measures". He said: "On the one hand he was appearing to engage with the (Prevent) programme but he kept secret what he was planning and plotting." Mr Haydon said it was "good fortune" the bomb did not fully detonate and kill and injure many passengers. A review of Hassan's dealings with Prevent is under way.
Convicted terrorist Ahmed Hassan Mohammed Ali is jailed for life in London for one count of attempted murder and one of causing an explosion with intent to endanger life. He will have to serve 34 years before becoming eligible for parole.