The Parsons Green Tube bomber should spend 34 years in prison to learn the true meaning of the Koran as a book of peace, a judge said yesterday.

Ahmed Hassan, who claims to be 18, attempted to murder nearly 100 passengers on a District line train at Parsons Green, London, on September 15 but the bomb misfired.

Ahmed Hassan was obsessed with his father’s death, the court was told METROPOLITAN POLICE/PA

Only the primer charge detonated, creating a fireball and injuring 51 people, none seriously.

Mr Justice Haddon-Cave said that Hassan, who was born in Iraq and claimed asylum in Britain, “cynically exploited to the full the generosity and naivety of the system” and those looking after him, all the while harbouring “dark thoughts”.

He gave Hassan a life sentence with a minimum of 34 years. The ruling came