Sabeel admits to knowing about UK terror plot

DOC IN THE DOCK: He was charged under the Terrorism Act of 2000.

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New Delhi: Sabeel Ahmed, the Indian doctor arrested in Liverpool in connection with the Glasgow terror attacks, has pleaded guilty to withholding information about the car bomb attack on Glasgow Airport.

Twenty-year-old Sabeel pleaded guilty during a hearing at the Old Bailey in London Friday morning. He will be released and deported to India almost immediately as he has already served the time while on trial.

He was charged under the Terrorism Act of 2000 on June 30, 2007, the day of the attack. Sabeel's brother Kafeel Ahmed died of burns at a Glasgow hospital couple of weeks after the foiled terror attack.

Prosecutors say Kafeel sent an e-mail to the doctor before driving a jeep into the airport.

PTI adds: Sabeel’s mother Zakia Ahmed maintained her son was " innocent" and was looking up to God to have her son back in India.

"He is innocent. He got trapped in a conspiracy" Zakia said here while reacting to reports that Sabeel had confessed in a London court that he had withheld information that could have prevented the act of terrorism.

Zakia, whose another son Kafeel drove the burning jeep into the Glasgow airport on June 30 last year and later succumbed to burns, hoped Sabeel would come out clean in the case. "I hope he comes back".

IANS adds: Originally from Bangalore, Ahmed was arrested in Liverpool June 30 last year and later charged under the Terrorism Act, 2000.

He entered his guilty plea during a hearing at the Old Bailey in London on Friday.

Ahmed was the third person to be charged in the investigation and two other men face a trial later this year accused of conspiracy to cause explosions.

Prosecutor Jonathan Laidlaw told the court that the attack was intended to be a suicide mission after earlier attacks on the capital had failed.

"One assumes that the nature of the attack in terms of what was planned had changed because of the failed attempts in London.

"They appeared now to have been working on the basis they were likely to be arrested and the attack to be conducted at Glasgow was to be a suicide attack likely to result in the loss of both their lives," he said.

A day before the Glasgow attack, the police in London were able to prevent the car bombing of a packed nightclub that has been linked by prosecutors to the attempted airport bombing.