Three Islamic extremists will be sentenced today for a suicide bomb plot designed to kill thousands of passengers on transatlantic airliners.

AT least three of the men arrested on suspicion of plotting to blow up a series of transatlantic flights were converts to Islam, it emerged yesterday.

At least three of the men arrested on suspicion of being involved in a terror plot to blow up a series of transatlantic planes had converted to Islam, it emerged today.

Residents near a house which was raided by anti-terror police overnight were evacuated from nine properties today “as a precautionary measure”, police said.