Teen who bombed U.K. subway sentenced to at least 34 years

LONDON — A teenage Iraqi asylum-seeker who told police he had been trained by the Islamic State group has been sentenced to at least 34 years in prison for bombing a London subway train and injuring 51 people.

A judge gave Ahmed Hassan, 18, a life sentence Friday with a requirement that he serve a minimum 34 years. A jury last week convicted Hassan of attempted murder in the September 2017 attack.

Judge Charles HaddonCave called Hassan “a dangerous and devious individual” and said he plotted the subway bombing while pretending to be a model asylum-seeker.

The bomb he placed on a packed London Underground train only partially detonated. Prosecutors said there probably would have been fatalities if the device had functioned properly.