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Student terror conviction quashed

Feb 9 2010

A student dubbed a "wannabe suicide bomber" has had his conviction quashed by appeal court judges.

Mohammed Atif Siddique, from Alva, Clackmannanshire, was locked up for eight years in October 2007 after being convicted of a series of terror offences.

He was the first person to be convicted of Islamist terror charges in Scotland.

But three senior judges last month said he suffered a miscarriage of justice after the trial judge misdirected the jury.

And they have now formally overturned the most serious conviction, which earned him six years of his sentence, at the Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh.

The Crown said it did not intend to seek a fresh prosecution against the 24-year-old, who has spent nearly four years in custody.

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