Former altar boy locked up for planting homemade bomb on Tube train

Weapons-obsessed Damon Smith built the device at home with a £2 clock from Tesco after finding an online al Qaida article entitled Make A Bomb In The Kitchen Of Your Mom.

Former altar boy locked up for planting homemade bomb on Tube train
Fri, 26 May, 2017 - 13:34

A former altar boy has been jailed for 15 years for planting a home-made bomb on a busy Tube train.

Weapons-obsessed Damon Smith built the device at home with a £2 clock from Tesco after finding an online al Qaida article entitled Make A Bomb In The Kitchen Of Your Mom.

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