High court judges consider ruling on bomb charges appeal

Published on Thursday 2 July 2009 21:51

A FORMER student who was jailed for eight years as Scotland's first Islamist terrorist will have to wait to hear whether he has won an appeal.

Mohammed Atif Siddique, 23, was convicted in Glasgow after a trial in 2007 of threatening to become a suicide bomber, and of offences under the 2000 and 2006 Terrorism Acts, including the possession of bomb-making instructions.

It was suggested by the defence at Siddique's trial that he had collected the material because of some general interest in the motives of terrorists, but the sentencing judge, Lord Carloway, said the evidence "negates any such suggestion".

Siddique's lawyers argued at the Court of Criminal Appeal that he had suffered a miscarriage of justice. The appeal judges, Lords Osborne, Reed and Clarke, said they would issue their ruling in due course.