Dental student accused of terror plot
NewsPosted by: manpreet.boora 23rd November 2017
A 24-year-old dental student whose brother was an ISIS suicide bomber is accused of a UK terror plot after ‘he bought 500 ball bearings online then police found Jihadi manuals on creating a Western sleeper cell’, a court heard.
According to the Daily Mail, the police the jury they found Jihadist manuals on creating a Western sleeper cell and advice for making homemade bombs when they raided the home of undergraduate Mohammed Awan.
The 24-year-old from Huddersfield, Yorkshire, was arrested by anti-terror police days after purchasing hundreds of ball bearings, which extremist material he possessed advised could be used as shrapnel in home-made bombs, Sheffield Crown Court heard.
Awan, who was studying dentistry at Sheffield University, was found to possess a ‘significant volume’ of extremist material including advice on how to be a ‘sleeper cell’ in the West, it is alleged.
The defendant’s brother, Rizwan Awan and his partner, Sophie, had traveled from Manchester Airport to Istanbul, Turkey on May 17, 2015, and appears to have joined Isis, the court heard.
The brothers were then in contact with each other in August 2015, before reports emerged that Rizwan killed himself as a suicide bomber in Iraq in March 2016.
Meanwhile, in the UK, Awan’s internet searches and possession of extremist material was also ‘progressing’ from April 2015 onwards, Simon Davis, prosecuting told the jury.
