Jailed for making notes about bombs?

[ciphergoth]

Man jailed for 15 years on terror charges

On the balance of probabilities, I think the guy's a wrongun. But beyond reasonable doubt?

Jailed for making notes about bombs argues that he was just a nutter with an Al-Qaeda fixation, unlikely to actually do anything. Maybe.

Comments

[zotz]

Hard to say based on very brief articles. The only thing that strikes me as really incriminating is the socks - he says he handled packed explosives eight years earlier and it still shows up on his socks? Well, maybe. It sounds a bit sus, but I'm no expert.

Apart from that, it all seems quite consistent with him just being a bit of a fantasist.

[zotz]

And of course the jury didn't find on that charge - he was only convicted for the notebooks.

[lovingboth]

Hmmm, I'm not so sure. He's doing something for someone, even if it's "just" carrying money around for Chechnics.

I wonder what tests were done on everyone who was on the coach at Dover when a gun and two grenades were found (see Times story).

[zotz]

He's doing something for someone

Well-travelled bloke, isn't he? Yes, thanks for that link.

I'd be interested in knowing what sort of tests they ran generally. They seem to be confident about having found four very specific explosives.