Bucket bomber told teacher: ‘It’s my duty to hate Britain’

A teenage asylum seeker who detonated a bucket bomb on a crowded rush hour train donated cash to Islamic State and told his teacher ‘it is my duty to hate Britain’, a court heard. Ahmed Hassan, 18, injured 30 commuters after detonating the device loaded with nails, screws and knives, causing the packed District Line carriage to erupt in a ‘fireball’, the Old Bailey heard. The bomb exploded as the train pulled into Parsons Green station shortly before 8.20am on…