Pak-born man convicted of pipe bomb plot in UK
8 Aug 2017 5:41 PM GMT
A 43-year-old Pakistan-born man with an Italian passport was today found guilty of trying to smuggle a pipe bomb onto a plane at Manchester Airport.
Nadeem Muhammad was convicted of possessing explosives with intent to endanger life at Manchester Crown Court on Tuesday after prosecutors presented evidence that he intended to detonate the device on a Boeing 737 flight to Bergamo, Italy.
The jury did not believe Muhammad's claim in court that he had never seen the device before. He will be sentenced at the same court on August 23.
The court was told that Muhammad was planning to board a Ryanair flight to Italy on January 30 this year when security officers uncovered the device, made of masking tape, batteries, the tube of a marker pen, pins and wires, in the zip lining of his small green suitcase.
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