Railway bomb plotter ‘hoodwinked’ psychiatrist

BIRMINGHAM

An Islamic terrorist who plotted to blow up a busy railway line with a bomb made from a pressure cooker and fairy lights may have ‘hoodwinked’ a psychiatrist, a court heard. Zahid Hussain, 29, built the homemade explosive device at his home in Birmingham using a doorbell for a remote detonator and loaded it with nails, drill bits, nuts and bolts for shrapnel. The former bouncer made a series of ‘research trips’ to the West Coast Mainline – the high…

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