2006 transatlantic aircraft plot: Difference between revisions

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Of 24 suspects who were arrested in and around London on the night of 9 August 2006, eight were tried initially for terrorism offences associated with the plot. The first trial occurred from April to September 2008. The jury failed to reach a verdict on charges of conspiracy to kill by blowing up aircraft but did find three men guilty of conspiracy to murder and acquitted one other of all charges. During September 2009, a second trial (of the now seven originally accused but with the addition of another man) found three men guilty of conspiracy to kill by blowing up aircraft and one other guilty of conspiracy to murder, while the 'additional' man was exonerated of all terrorism charges.<ref name="BBC News">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8242238.stm |title='Three guilty of airline bomb plot' |date=7 September 2009 |work=BBC News |access-date=19 February 2009 |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20160424035028/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8242238.stm |archive-date=24 April 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref>

During July 2010, a further three of the accused were found guilty at a third trial at [[Woolwich]] [[Crown Court]] of conspiracy to murder.<ref name=BBC12710>{{cite news|title=Would-be suicide bombers jailed for life |date=12 July 2010 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/10600084.stm |work=BBC News |access-date=12 July 2010 |archive-url=https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20150614020606/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10600084 |archive-date=14 June 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref> Thus, of the nine men tried, two were acquitted and seven found guilty of conspiracy charges.

==Surveillance==