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UK would-be shoebomber sentence cut over deal
Source: Reuters
UK would-be shoebomber sentence cut over deal
By Michael Holden
LONDON | Mon Apr 16, 2012 11:52am EDT
(Reuters) - A Briton convicted of plotting with shoebomber Richard Reid to carry out a suicide bomb attack on an aircraft has had his jail term reduced after striking a deal to give evidence at the trial of a man accused of an al Qaeda bombing plot in New York.
Saajid Badat, 33, was convicted in Britain in 2005 of conspiring with Reid to blow up planes in simultaneous attacks and sentenced to 13 years in prison.
Reid failed in his bid to blow up an American Airlines plane from Paris to Miami on December 22, 2001 after passengers and crew overpowered him as he tried to ignite explosives in his shoe. Reid was jailed in the United States for life.
Badat was booked on a flight from Britain to the United States via Amsterdam days earlier, but had a change of heart and abandoned his attack plans. He then cooperated with counter-terrorism police and the FBI while in prison.
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By Michael Holden
LONDON | Mon Apr 16, 2012 11:52am EDT
(Reuters) - A Briton convicted of plotting with shoebomber Richard Reid to carry out a suicide bomb attack on an aircraft has had his jail term reduced after striking a deal to give evidence at the trial of a man accused of an al Qaeda bombing plot in New York.
Saajid Badat, 33, was convicted in Britain in 2005 of conspiring with Reid to blow up planes in simultaneous attacks and sentenced to 13 years in prison.
Reid failed in his bid to blow up an American Airlines plane from Paris to Miami on December 22, 2001 after passengers and crew overpowered him as he tried to ignite explosives in his shoe. Reid was jailed in the United States for life.
Badat was booked on a flight from Britain to the United States via Amsterdam days earlier, but had a change of heart and abandoned his attack plans. He then cooperated with counter-terrorism police and the FBI while in prison.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/16/us-britain-security-bomber-idUSBRE83F0U320120416
