- Tuesday, April 30, 2024
By: Sarwar Alam
A 43-year-old Pakistan-born man with an Italian passport has been sentenced to 18 years in prison in the UK for trying to smuggle a pipe bomb onto a plane at Manchester Airport. Nadeem Muhammad had been convicted of possessing explosives with intent to endanger life at Manchester Crown Court earlier this month. Judge Patrick Field, sentencing at the court yesterday, concluded there was no obvious motivation for Muhammad’s actions. During his trial, prosecutors had presented evidence that Muhammad intended to detonate the device on a Boeing 737 flight to Bergamo, Italy. The jury did not believe Muhammad’s claim in court…
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