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Ahmed Hassan carrying his bomb at Wimbledon Station, shortly before he planted it on a London Underground train.
- Ahmed Hassan, 18, has been jailed for a bomb attack on the London Underground.
- He was convicted of attempted murder last week for the September 2017 attack.
- The bomb failed to explode properly, meaning victims were injured rather than killed.
The man who planted a bomb on a packed London Underground train last year has been sentenced to 34 years in prison for attempted murder.
Ahmed Hassan, 18, left a home-made explosive on a District Line service on the morning of September 15, 2017.
The device, stuffed with nailed and shrapnel, exploded at Parsons Green station in West London, but failed to detonate fully.
As a result, it caused only minor injuries, rather than the mass casualties that a full detonation would have achieved.
Sylvain Pennic
The Parsons Green bomb.
Hassan, who came to Britain as a refugee from Iraq, was convicted of attempted murder last week at the Old Bailey criminal court in Central London. He was given his sentence on Friday.
During his trial, the court heard that Hassan had been groomed by ISIS while he was still in Iraq, and considered it his "duty to hate Britain."
He left the bomb on the District Line train and got off one stop before it detonated. Hassan then tried to flee the country, and got as far as the departure lounge at Dover ferry port before he was arrested.
During his escape attempt, Hassan tried to evade detection by ditching his phone, breaking his memory card into tiny pieces, and hiding it on a bus, using only cash and changing outfits - but was still tracked down.
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Hassan being arrested at Dover the day after the attack.