Terror conviction to be overturned (From Asian Image)

Terror conviction to be overturned

11:46am Friday 29th January 2010

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The first man in Scotland to be found guilty of Islamist terrorism charges suffered a miscarriage of justice, appeal court judges has said.

And they said they were “minded” to quash the conviction of British-born Mohammed Atif Siddique.

Siddique, branded a “wannabe suicide bomber” at his trial, was jailed for eight years in October 2007 for a series of terror offences.

They included providing material on bomb-making, amassing and distributing terrorist propaganda via websites, and providing instructional material about guns and explosives over the internet.

But the 24-year-old, from Alva, Clackmannanshire, has always maintained his innocence and a full appeal against his conviction was held over three days last summer.

And three senior judges at the Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh said today that they intended to quash his conviction on the main terror charge at a hearing next week.

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