The Sunday Post (Inverness)

Why did you not warn us?

Anger of bomber’s foster parents

- By Gordon Blackstock GBLACKSTOC­K@SUNDAYPOST.COM

The foster parents of the Parsons Green Tube bomber demanded to know why they were not warned about him yesterday.

Ron and Penny Jones said they were never told that he had admitted being “trained to kill” by militants shortly after arriving in Britain.

The couple took Iraqi asylum seeker Ahmed Hassan into their home in Surrey and said he “seemed like the loveliest boy we could have asked for”.

But unbeknown to them, the teenager was plotting to cause carnage in central London, secretly making 400g of “Mother of Satan” explosives while they were away and packing the device with 2.2kg of screwdrive­rs, knives, nuts and bolts.

On Friday he was convicted of attempted murder after the bomb partially exploded on the floor of a Tube carriage at Parsons Green, injuring 51 passengers.

During his trial, the Old Bailey heard he had wanted to avenge the death of his father in Iraq and was “disappoint­ed” when the bomb only partly detonated in a huge fireball.

It was also revealed the 18-year-old had already come to the attention of the Home Office, telling officials in January 2016 he was recruited by IS.

During an immigratio­n interview, he said: “They trained us how to kill.”

 ??  ?? Bomber Ahmed Hassan
Bomber Ahmed Hassan

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