Financial analyst jailed after creating bomb factory in a lock-up

A financial analyst from Surrey has been jailed for eight years for terrorism offences after he was caught with a bomb-factory in a lock-up when he took his laptop in for repair.

Asad Bhatti, 50, from Redhill, who worked for Legal and General as a senior financial analyst, combined Islam and conspiracy theories to come up with his own manifesto.

The manifesto, titled the “Believers Handbook” and a collection of bomb manuals, were found after he took his laptop into a shop called Computer Solutions in Caterham, Surrey, because it would not start up.

Police discovered he had also rented a storage unit where they found chemicals and circuitry, together with a homemade detonator, a half-constructed pipe bomb, quantities of gunpowder and the remnants of nitroglycerin.

Read more: Sky News (UK)