Iraqi boy ‘made Tube bomb in Tupperware’

A TEENAGE Iraqi refugee made a bomb set off at a Tube station in his foster parents’ kitchen using their Tupperware, a court was told yesterday.

Ahmed Hassan, 18, is alleged to have used the home of Penelope and ronald Jones to prepare the deadly explosive triacetone triperoxide (TATP), commonly known as Mother of Satan.

Traces of TATP were found in a bowl in the kitchen sink, on the hob and in the extractor fan at the home of Mr and Mrs Jones, who were previously awarded MBEs for helping scores of children, the Old Bailey heard.

Hassan is said to have assembled the bomb in a ‘window of opportunity’ when his foster parents were on holiday.

The teenage aslyum seeker told the Home Office he had been trained to kill by Islamic State after he arrived in Britain on the back of a lorry through the Channel Tunnel in 2015, the court heard.

After being taken in aged 15 by the trusting couple, he allegedly stashed one of the key bomb ingredients, hydrogen peroxide, on top of the wardrobe in his bedroom.

While his foster parents were away he put 300g of TATP into the couple’s biggest Tupperware box to make up the main charge for the bucket bomb which went off at Parsons Green Tube station on September 15 last year, injuring 30 people, jurors heard.

Hassan is also said to have taken kitchen knives and screwdrivers from a set in the house in Sunbury, Surrey, to use as shrapnel for ‘maximum carnage’.

There were traces of the explosive in a Tesco carrier bag inside a bin liner dumped in the couple’s conservatory, where he also left empty packets of screwdriver socket sets and a bottle of acid that he used, the court was told.

He denies attempted murder and causing an explosion likely to endanger life.

The trial continues.

‘Trained to kill by Islamic State’