London: Bomber who injured 51 passengers jailed for life

http://bit.ly/2IJNrEu | Commuters were caught in a fireball when Ahmed Hassan's bucket-bomb partially exploded, leaving 23 people with burns and a further 28 with injuries from the panicked stampede to get away.

Hassan, an asylum seeker who claims to be aged 18, pretended to engage with the anti-terrorism Prevent scheme as he plotted mass murder in the capital. He made a bomb with 400g of 'Mother of Satan' explosives and 2.2kg of shrapnel while his unsuspecting foster parents were on holiday in Blackpool.

The Old Bailey heard he wanted to avenge the death of his father in Iraq and was 'disappointed' when the bomb only partly detonated in a huge fireball. A jury rejected his explanation that he only wanted to act out a fantasy like the Tom Cruise film Mission: Impossible and convicted him of multiple attempted murder. He made no reaction as Mr Justice Haddon-Cave handed him a life sentence with a minimum term of 34 years.