A mother’s love is blind

the mother of damon smith, the 20-year-old convicted of making a bomb full of ball bearings and leaving it on the tube, says her son is not an extremist but an innocent, vulnerable lad who has asperger’s. not as vulnerable as the passengers who could have been killed if his home-made bomb — inspired by an online alQaeda magazine — had gone off. and how ironic that on his computer, police found instructions for making the bomb in the ‘kitchen of your mum’.