Parsons Green Tube bomber Ahmed Hassan sentenced to life

From Sky News, live from court

Exerpts from the Judge, Mr Justice Haddon-Cave’s, comments You were not prepared for martyrdom. . . wanted to save his own skin. 

Satisfied that the offence of attempted murder was an act of terrorism (That’s good – so far)

You were motivated deep seated hatred of this country and desire for revenge against this county and US for the death of your father. No doubt you are a very dangerous and devious individual …using military efficiency while pretending to be a model asylum seeker.

I sentence you to life imprisonment with min term of 34 years. (and then the inevitable)

You will have plenty of time to read the Koran in prison. The Koran is a book of peace. Islam forbids breaking the law of the land. Islam forbids terrorism. You have violated Islam and the Koran by your actions.

The Diversity Division of Judicial Group of the Ministry of Justice was the one that escaped the cull of 2008. They have done their work well. Judge’s may well be of diverse ethnic origins and sexual taste these days, but they are selected and trained according to a conformity of minkthink that even orwell would have thought far-fetched. That educated and intelligent men, women and the fluid continue to lack the independence of conscience to be honest about the nature of Islam and the koran is scandalous. They must be now, some of them at least, be aware of the flaws in that ideology and its unholy manual; I cannot believe otherwise. The longer since my retirement, the more I realise how desperate the government was to get my generation off the scene.