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NHS doctor Bilal Abdulla, who tried to blow up a London nightclub and Glasgow airport, will serve a minimum of 32 years after a judge condemned his “murderous intent” to maim and kill.
Mr Justice Mackay told Bilal Abdulla, 29, he was a “ very dangerous man” who posed a high risk to the British public
He said he had no doubt that Abdulla and his accomplice Kafeel Ahmed, 28, who died a month after the attacks, were planning to “kill innocent civilians on an indiscriminate basis.”
Both men shared equal responsibility, he added, but they may have had “external encouragement.”
Abdulla, a junior doctor from Iraq, and Ahmed, a PhD student from India, tried to set off two car bombs outside the Tiger Tiger night club in London’s West End and when they failed to go off drove a burning Jeep into Glasgow airport in June last year.
The judge said the nails added to the London bombs demonstrated Abdulla’s deadly intent and the car had been parked next to a the glass wall of the nightclub for maximum effect.
He said: “Your murderous intent was best shown by the obstructing of the safety mechanisms on two of the cylinders and by the 800-plus nails in one car and 1,000 in the second, designed to do nothing else but constitute a deadly form of shrapnel to maim, injure and kill.
“The club represented everything that you and Ahmed held in contempt and despised about Western culture - drink, association between the sexes, and music.”
Michael Moore fans will be thrilled to know that Dr. Abdulla’s medical care was provided free by the British government.
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