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Student terror conviction quashed | |
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A man branded a "wannabe suicide bomber" by prosecutors will not face a retrial on terrorism charges. | |
Mohammed Atif Siddique, 24, a student from Alva, Clackmannanshire, was found guilty in 2007. | |
But Appeal Court judges said on 29 January he had suffered a "miscarriage of justice" on one of the terror charges and quashed the conviction. | |
The Crown Office has said it does not wish to seek a fresh prosecution. Siddique will now been released. | |
In a statement, the Crown Office said Siddique remains convicted of serious terrorist offences. | |
The shopkeeper's son was jailed for eight years in October 2007 after a four-week trial in Glasgow. | The shopkeeper's son was jailed for eight years in October 2007 after a four-week trial in Glasgow. |
He was found guilty of two charges under the Terrorism Act 2000, one under the Terrorism Act 2006 and a breach of the peace. | He was found guilty of two charges under the Terrorism Act 2000, one under the Terrorism Act 2006 and a breach of the peace. |
The most serious charge related to the possession of articles that gave rise to "reasonable suspicion" they were connected to terrorism. | |
The jury found Siddique had amassed and distributed terrorist propaganda via websites and provided instructional material about guns and explosives over the internet. | |
His conviction on that allegation resulted in a six-year prison term. | |
But at his appeal hearing in January Lord Osborne criticised the way the trial judge explained the main Terrorist Act charge to the jury. | |
The judge, sitting with Lords Reed and Clarke in Edinburgh, said the "material misdirection" amounted to "a miscarriage of justice". | The judge, sitting with Lords Reed and Clarke in Edinburgh, said the "material misdirection" amounted to "a miscarriage of justice". |