Nine years for would-be bomber

Bethnal Green

A would-be bomber who tried to buy a hand grenade from an undercover detective and then claimed it was all part of his ‘James Bond fantasy’ was jailed for nine years. Mohammed Chowdhury, 24, planned to throw the explosive device at Bethnal Green police station in east London. Chowdhury harboured a hatred of police and trawled the internet looking for grenades he could purchase. He unwittingly approached an undercover operative known as ‘Gary,’ on the social media app Signal last…

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