Petrol bomber faces jail

A former political prisoner is facing years behind bars for trying to blow up a diplomatic car outside the Iranian embassy with a homemade petrol bomb. IT expert Sam Parsa, 60, planted a bottle of petrol along with a scarf into the exhaust pipe of a BMW parked outside the offices in Knightsbridge, central London. The Iranian claims he was tortured for seven and a half years during the Iran-Iraq War, before being released and fleeing the country by secretly…