Teenager Pleads Not Guilty to Carrying out London Bomb Attack on Train

Teenager Pleads Not Guilty to Carrying out London Bomb Attack on Train
Stock footage of an ambulance (Reuters/Luke MacGregor)
Reuters
1/19/2018
Updated:
1/19/2018

LONDON—A teenager accused of planting an improvised bomb on a London commuter train which injured 30 people pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges of attempted murder and causing an explosion at Parsons Green station in southwest London last September.

Ahmed Hassan, 18, appeared at London’s Old Bailey by video link from Belmarsh prison.

He is charged with trying to murder passengers on a District Line underground train heading to central London from the southwestern suburb of Wimbledon.

Emergency services attend the scene following a blast on an underground train at Parsons Green tube station in West London, Britain on Sept. 15, 2017. (Twitter/@ASolopovas/via Reuters)
Emergency services attend the scene following a blast on an underground train at Parsons Green tube station in West London, Britain on Sept. 15, 2017. (Twitter/@ASolopovas/via Reuters)

He is also accused of making a bomb using the highly volatile triacetone triperoxide (TATP)—known as “the mother of Satan”—or another explosive substance.

Flames engulfed the carriage but no-one was seriously hurt in what authorities said was Britain’s fifth major attack of 2017.

The two week trial is due to start on March 5.

Reporting by Michael Holden