New York subway pipe bomb attacker gets life for ‘barbaric and heinous’ crime

Police stand guard inside the Port Authority Bus Terminal following an explosion near Times Square in New York in 2017 (Andres Kudacki/AP)

A judge has sentenced a Bangladeshi immigrant whose pipe bomb mostly misfired in a busy New York City subway station in 2017 to life in prison, calling the crime “barbaric and heinous”.

Akayed Ullah was sentenced in Manhattan federal court by Judge Richard J Sullivan.