Trial for ‘ball bearing bomber’

A student accused of planting a ‘ball bearing bomb’ on a London tube train will stand trial in April. Damon Smith, 19, allegedly left a ‘viable improvised explosive device’ on a Jubilee Line Underground train at North Greenwich Tube station on 20 October. The black Adidas bag containing the bomb was left on the train between Southwark and London Bridge. Two members of the public spotted it and alerted the driver at North Greenwich station. Both the train and platform…