Ahmed Hassan jailed for life

18-year-old Ahmed Hassan has been sentenced to serve a minimum of 34 years for planting a bomb on an underground tube at Parsons Green last September. Found guilty of attempted murder, the home-made bomb partially exploded during London's rush hour on 15 September, injuring 51 people. Treating the incident as a terrorist attack, Mr Justice Haddon-Cave said Hassan planned his attack with ‘ruthless determination and almost military efficiency while pretending to be a model asylum seeker’. Prosecutors have stressed that if the bomb had fully detonated, there would have undoubtedly been ‘serious harm, if not fatality’.