Three bomb attacks at mosques in the West Midlands were an attempt to launch an anti-Muslim terrorist campaign, detectives believe.

The team investigating the attacks is linking all three devices which exploded in Walsall, Wolverhampton and Tipton in the run up to and during the early days of Ramadan.

The device which exploded outside the Kanzul Iman Masjid mosque in Tipton on July 12 - the day of the funeral of Fusilier Lee Rigby in Bury - was packed with nails and could have caused multiple injuries had it gone off when the car park of the building was crowded.

One counter-terrorism source said: “The Tipton bomb was a horrible device. If it had exploded at another time there could have been major loss of