The perpetrator of the attack on Parsons Green station in the London Underground, an 18-year-old Iranian who had sought asylum in Britain, was sentenced today to life imprisonment. Ahmed Hassan was convicted on March 16 of attempted murder. Today, he remained apathetic upon hearing the sentence imposed on him. He must serve at least 34 years to be eligible for parole.
"You were determined to cause as many deaths as possible," Judge Charles Hunton-Cave told the 18-year-old. He explained that his motives were multiple: he had been influenced by Islamic State extremism, he hated the United Kingdom deeply, he wanted revenge on the British and Americans whom he blamed for his father's death in Iraq, and he was outraged by the continuing bombings. by Western powers.
The Iraqi, who authorities say is over the age of 18 but under the age of 21, arrived in Britain illegally in 2015 and said he had lived for three months in an Islamic State training camp. He was an excellent student and in fact had won the award of "student of the year" at the school where he attended.
On September 15 last year, the young man left his home in Sunbury-on-Times, south-west London, and headed to the local train station holding a supermarket bag where he had hidden the improvised explosive device.
The bomber struck shortly after noon in front of a Parsons Green train station, containing two kilograms of nails, screwdrivers, knives, knives and other metal objects. Because it did not explode completely, only minor injuries occurred.
Hassan was arrested the next day in Dover while trying to flee Britain. He admitted to police that he had made the bomb but claimed that he did not intend to kill anyone and only wanted to draw attention to himself.