Failed shoe-bomber to plead guilty

THE Briton who set out to kill 197 people

Londoner Richard Reid, 29, was tackled by passengers and crew as he tried to set off sophisticated explosives in his trainers on an American Airlines Paris to Miami flight in December.

US Attorney General John Ashcroft stressed that prosecutors in Boston had not struck a deal with the Muslim convert, saying they would prove all their claims against him at his sentencing.