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| Pair jailed for UK Christmas homemade bomb attack plan | 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. | A couple has been jailed for plotting a terror attack in the UK using a homemade bomb over Christmas. |
| Munir Mohammed, from Derby, was handed a life sentence, with a minimum of 14 years. Pharmacist Rowaida El-Hassan has been jailed for 12 years. | |
| The trial at the Old Bailey heard the pair met on a dating website and Mohammed used El-Hassan's chemical knowledge to help plan an attack. | The trial at the Old Bailey heard the pair met on a dating website and Mohammed used El-Hassan's chemical knowledge to help plan an attack. |
| The judge said he posed "a significant risk of serious harm to the public". | The judge said he posed "a significant risk of serious harm to the public". |
| At the time of his arrest in December 2016, Mohammed had two of the three components for TATP explosives as well as manuals on how to make bombs and ricin poison. | At the time of his arrest in December 2016, Mohammed had two of the three components for TATP explosives as well as manuals on how to make bombs and ricin poison. |
| 'Lone wolf' | 'Lone wolf' |
| The 37-year-old, of Leopold Street, Derby, 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," Judge Michael Topolski QC 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." | "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". | 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". |
| Mohammed, originally from Eritrea and who lived in Sudan for some time before coming to the UK, investigated making poison while working at a supermarket ready meals factory. | Mohammed, originally from Eritrea and who lived in Sudan for some time before coming to the UK, investigated making poison while working at a supermarket ready meals factory. |
| The court heard he and El-Hassan, 33, of Willesden Lane, north-west London, had exchanged messages about ricin after meeting online. | |
| El-Hassan wrote on the dating website she was looking for a simple man whom she could "vibe with on a spiritual and intellectual level". | |
| By the spring of 2016 the pair were in regular contact on WhatsApp and had met more than once in a London park near El-Hassan's home. | |
| The mother-of-two advised fellow divorcee Mohammed on what chemicals he needed for the bomb. | |
| During sentencing, the judge highlighted Mohammed's "vast store" of IS propaganda depicting the "abhorrent" acts of murder, including nearly 26,000 images on his phone. | |
| El-Hassan never objected to being sent the material as her two children slept in her bedroom, and even asked for more, the judge said. | |
| Even though Mohammed introduced extremism in their relationship, El-Hassan "embraced it and became more and more absorbed by it to the point she became an enthusiastic and encouraging partner", he added. |