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Parsons Green Tube attack: Chilling images show inside home where teenager made bomb planted on Tube

Metropolitan Police
Metropolitan Police

These chilling images show inside the home where the Parsons Green bomber built an explosive device that partially detonated on a busy commuter Tube train.

Ahmed Hassan, 18, plotted to cause “carnage” in the capital with the bomb that was packed with nails using a “Mother of Satan” explosive.

After the teenager was jailed for life today, police released shocking images of Hassan’s house where he built the device that would later leave dozens injured.

In the chilling images shrapnel is seen in boxes and scattered around the house that may have been used to pack out the explosive used in the attack.

The word 'bored' can be seen scribbled repeatedly on the teenager's bedroom door (Metropolitan Police)
The word 'bored' can be seen scribbled repeatedly on the teenager's bedroom door (Metropolitan Police)

Another disturbing photo shows the back of Hassan’s bedroom door on which the word “bored” had been scrawled over and over again.

Plastic bottles of acid on top of table in conservatory, which the teenager allegedly bought on Amazon to make explosives, could also be seen in the pictures.

Shrapnel can be seen in boxes around the house (Metropolitan Police)
Shrapnel can be seen in boxes around the house (Metropolitan Police)

The images had been shown to the jury as evidence during the teenage asylum seekers trial at the Old Bailey before being made public by Scotland Yard upon its conclusion.

Twenty-three passengers suffered burns, with some describing their hair catching fire and their clothes melting in the blast in September last year.

Parsons Green Tube bomber Ahmed Hassan pictured in a police mugshot
Parsons Green Tube bomber Ahmed Hassan pictured in a police mugshot

Sentencing Hassan on Friday, Mr Justice Haddon-Cave said: "Your intention that morning was to kill as many members of the British public as possible by planting the IED on a busy commuter Tube train."

He added: "I am satisfied, having heard the evidence at the trial, that the offence of attempted murder of which you have been convicted was an act of terrorism on your part by the use of explosives aimed at advancing a political, religious, ideological or racial cause."

A plastic bottle of acid on top of table in conservatory which Ahmed Hassan allegedly bought on Amazon to make explosives (PA)
A plastic bottle of acid on top of table in conservatory which Ahmed Hassan allegedly bought on Amazon to make explosives (PA)

Had his bomb fully exploded, there would have been "numerous fatalities", he said.

"I am satisfied you were determined to create as much death and carnage that day as possible, " the judge added.