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Manchester Airport pipe bomb plotter Nadeem Muhammad jailed Manchester Airport pipe bomb plotter Nadeem Muhammad jailed
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A man who tried to smuggle a pipe bomb on to a plane at Manchester Airport has been jailed for 18 years.A man who tried to smuggle a pipe bomb on to a plane at Manchester Airport has been jailed for 18 years.
The "crude improvised explosive device" was found in Nadeem Muhammad's luggage as he passed security on 30 January to try to board a plane to Bergamo, Italy.The "crude improvised explosive device" was found in Nadeem Muhammad's luggage as he passed security on 30 January to try to board a plane to Bergamo, Italy.
Police initially failed to detect the device was "potentially viable". Muhammad, 43, denied possessing explosives with intent to endanger life but was found guilty by a jury.
Muhammad, 43, of Bury denied possessing explosives with intent to endanger life but a jury previously found him guilty at Manchester Crown Court. The judge criticised both airport staff and police who did not initially think the device was "potentially viable".
Muhammad, of Tinline Street, Bury, was attempting to board a Ryanair flight when the item was discovered and told airport officials someone else had put it in his luggage.
'Lack of concern'
A forensic examination of the device later found it contained nitroglycerin and nitrocellulose, which led to Muhammad's home in Italy being searched.
After being questioned by Italian police, he was released and boarded a flight back to the UK on 12 February and arrested by UK officers shortly after landing.
Judge Patrick Field QC said after sentencing he was "alarmed" about some of the evidence in the case and about "the lack of concern" expressed by both airport officials and police.
Muhammad was born in Pakistan and holds an Italian passport.