{"id":698346,"date":"2026-01-15T19:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T19:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/698346\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T19:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T19:58:11","slug":"birmingham-man-jailed-for-possessing-bomb-making-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/698346\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham man jailed for possessing bomb-making video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sentencing Mahmood, the judge said: &#8220;The prosecution say you deliberately saved this video to your phone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You must have understood the nature of the video. Its visuals and subtitles made clear it was a bomb-making guide, not an innocuous clip.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The judge said police also found an &#8220;alarming display of medieval weapons&#8221; in Mahmood&#8217;s bedroom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">These included swords, knives, an axe and a catapult, which the defendant claimed were linked to his interest in Islamic history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While there was no evidence Mahmood intended to use the bomb-making video for a specific terrorist act, the judge said the ballbearings found in his bedroom suggested the defendant was &#8220;at least contemplating assembling such a device&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You had terrorist motivations. That is clear from the items in your bedroom, the material on your phone and your evidence,&#8221; Mahmood was told.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The judge added: &#8220;The presence of such an arsenal in the bedroom of an 18-year-old was a clear warning sign &#8211; one that regrettably no responsible adult acted upon.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sentencing Mahmood, the judge said: &#8220;The prosecution say you deliberately saved this video to your phone. &#8220;You must&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-698346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115900888202749717","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}