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<\/p>\nA TikToker who downloaded a bomb-making video believed to have been used by the Manchester Arena terrorist has been jailed.<\/p>\n
Adam Mahmood, then 18, had more than 27,000 followers on TikTok when he asked another user for the bomb-making video, believed to have been used in the Manchester Arena bombing and in a failed attempt to blow up a London Underground train at Parsons Green, London.<\/p>\n
He was found guilty of a single count of possessing a recording likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism after a week-long trial in September.<\/p>\n
The nearly 15-minute footage gave detailed instructions on producing a homemade explosive known as the “mother of Satan” and a detonator, as well as how to pack the bomb with ball bearings to make it more deadly, Birmingham Crown Court heard.<\/p>\n
Mahmood received the video on Telegram in October 2023, and last accessed the video in March 2024, about a week before his arrest.<\/p>\n
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\n An “arsenal” of weapons was found displayed on Mahmood’s bedroom wall. Pic: West Midlands Police<\/p>\n
When raiding the semi-detached house in Birmingham where Mahmood lived with his parents and two brothers, police found an “arsenal of weapons” in his bedroom, including several knives, a ball bearing gun and ball bearings.<\/p>\n
His TikTok profile showed Mahmood, then 18, from Garrett’s Green, Birmingham, wearing a balaclava with a black Islamic flag behind him and weapons including a bow and arrow, an axe and a sword.<\/p>\n
Police discovered the bomb-making video on his phone, as well as Islamic State propaganda praising martyrdom and videos of executions and beheadings.<\/p>\n
Weapons defended as ‘cosplay’<\/p>\n
Mahmood, now 20, claimed he was not an extremist and had skimmed through the bomb-making video, missing critical sections.<\/p>\n
He also told the court the weapons displayed on his bedroom wall were memorabilia linked to TV or gaming, and the weapons were for “cosplay”.<\/p>\n
But Judge Simon Drew KC said the ball bearings in Mahmood’s room showed he was “at least contemplating assembling such a device”.<\/p>\n
Read more from Sky News: “You deliberately saved this video to your phone. Its visuals and subtitles made clear it was a bomb-making guide,” he told Mahmood during sentencing and labelled him a “dangerous” individual.<\/p>\n Judge Drew said his phone indicates Mahmood had “a high level of interest in, and support for, prohibited terrorist organisations” and was “some way down the path to a deeper personal engagement in terrorist activities”.<\/p>\n The judge also highlighted his “alarming display of medieval weapons”, adding: “The presence of such an arsenal in the bedroom of an 18-year-old was a clear warning sign – one that, regrettably, no responsible adult acted upon.”<\/p>\n Mahmood was sentenced to four years in youth detention and another three years on extended licence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A TikToker who downloaded a bomb-making video believed to have been used by the Manchester Arena terrorist has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-372383","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\/372383","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=372383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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