By: Sarwar Alam
An ISIS supporter was today (10) sentenced to life for plotting to blow up railway lines in the UK using a home-made bomb from a pressure cooker and Christmas fairy lights after becoming radicalised online. Zahid Hussain from Birmingham, who filled a device with 1.6 kg of shrapnel and made “improvised igniters” from the festive decorations to create the so-called “pressure cooker bomb”, was convicted of preparing for an act of terrorism and jailed for at least 15 years by the Winchester Crown Court. “You are a dangerous offender and in the view of the level of the danger that…
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