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Pair jailed for UK Christmas homemade bomb attack plan | |
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A couple has been jailed for plotting a terror attack in the UK using a homemade bomb over Christmas. | |
Munir Mohammed, 36, from Derby, was handed a life sentence, with a minimum of 14 years. Pharmacist Rowaida El-Hassan has been jailed for 12 years. | |
The couple, who also exchanged messages about ricin, were sentenced at the Old Bailey. | |
Judge Michael Topolski QC said Mohammed posed "a significant risk of serious harm to the public". | |
'Lone wolf' | |
The 36-year-old had volunteered for a "lone wolf" mission while messaging an IS commander on Facebook. | |
"You decided the means of your attack would involve you making an IED," the judge said. | |
"You had not decided whether that would be made with an ordinary bomb or whether you could do more damage and more terror by exploding a device containing ricin." | |
He added that Mohammed had carefully and deliberately pulled El-Hassan in to the plot, to the point where her commitment was "consistent and sustained". |