‘Amateurish’ bomb plot unlikely to succeed

A MUSLIM extremist plot to bomb the London Stock Exchange was “amateurish” and unlikely to have succeeded, a court heard yesterday.

One of the men behind the conspiracy, Gurukanth Desai, 30, was “more of an anti-capitalist than a radical Islamist”, London’s Woolwich Crown Court was told.

Desai and three other radicals – his brother Abdul Miah, 25, Mohammed Chowdhury, 22, and Shah Rahman, 28 – pleaded guilty last week to preparing for acts of terrorism by planning to plant a bomb in the exchange.

But Rajiv Menon QC, mitigating for Desai, said it was an “amateurish” plot that was “poorly thought through and unsophisticated”.