A CCTV image from a bus allegedly of Ahmed Hassan on his way to pick up materials used in a bomb on the Tube PAA teenage asylum seeker who set off a bomb on a rush-hour Tube train used a £20 token that he was given at a school prize-giving to pay for the chemicals used in the device, a court was told. Ahmed Hassan, 18, is said to have built a homemade bomb in his foster parents’ home while they were away on holiday after buying the ingredients on Amazon. Mr Hassan, who had told immigration officials that he was “trained how to kill” by Islamic State, allegedly packed the device with shrapnel to increase fatalities. Nearly 100 people escaped with their lives when the explosion caused a fireball in the carriage at Parsons Green in southwest London on September 15 last year. Mr Hassan set a timer…

Source: The Times March 07, 2018 16:52 UTC