{"id":372082,"date":"2026-01-15T21:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T21:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/372082\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T21:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T21:34:08","slug":"birmingham-man-jailed-for-possessing-bomb-making-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/372082\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham man jailed for possessing bomb-making video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sentencing Mahmood, the judge said: &#8220;The prosecution say you deliberately saved this video to your phone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You must have understood the nature of the video. Its visuals and subtitles made clear it was a bomb-making guide, not an innocuous clip.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The judge said police also found an &#8220;alarming display of medieval weapons&#8221; in Mahmood&#8217;s bedroom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">These included swords, knives, an axe and a catapult, which the defendant claimed were linked to his interest in Islamic history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While there was no evidence Mahmood intended to use the bomb-making video for a specific terrorist act, the judge said the ballbearings found in his bedroom suggested the defendant was &#8220;at least contemplating assembling such a device&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You had terrorist motivations. That is clear from the items in your bedroom, the material on your phone and your evidence,&#8221; Mahmood was told.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The judge added: &#8220;The presence of such an arsenal in the bedroom of an 18-year-old was a clear warning sign &#8211; one that regrettably no responsible adult acted upon.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sentencing Mahmood, the judge said: &#8220;The prosecution say you deliberately saved this video to your phone. &#8220;You must&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-372082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}