Pictured: Mobile's missed calls that reveal 'terrorists tried to detonate car bombs 15 times in central London'



Terrorists tried 15 times to detonate two car bombs filled with petrol, gas and 2,000 nails in central London, a court was told.

The displays of Nokia mobile phones left in each car revealed several missed calls as they had been dialled up to four times each.

Police revealed the ringing circuit in each was wired to a light bulb, held in a syringe and surrounded by match heads.

The simple devices were intended to ignite the volatile vapours swirling inside the vehicles and create an explosion.

But a lack of oxygen prevented a potentially deadly fireball, the jury was told.



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Mobile phones were to have been detonators, but failed, jury was told

Petrol inside the boot of car parked outside nightclub



Gas cannister and nails inside



Pictures have now been released showing the bombs that the terrorists intended to explode, the court was told.

They show the interiors of two Mercedes packed with 2,000 nails, cylinders of gas and 100 litres petrol divided into four 25 litre cannisters.

One of the vehicles was parked outside the Tiger Tiger nightclub in Haymarket, where there were 500 people partying, and the other near a bus stop in nearby Cockspur Streeet, when the bombs were meant to explode in June last year, prosecutors say.

Jurors at Woolwich Crown Court were also shown pictures of mobiles which prosecutors said had been dialled 15 times in attempts to trigger the devices. They included a Nokia handset, wired to a homemade detonator.

Two doctors, Bilal Abdullah, 29, and Mohammed Asha, 28, are accused of plotting the attacks and another at Glasgow Airport to commit 'indiscriminate and wholesale murder'.

Abdullah, of Houston, Scotland, and Asha, of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs, deny conspiracy to murder and cause explosions on June 29 last year.

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Green G-reg Mercedes that was parked outside nightclub



Second car was parked at a nearby bus stop



Abdulla, 29, was seen on CCTV as he parked one Mercedes outside the busy nightclub and ran off, the court heard.

His DNA was found on a bloodstain on the dashboard, the cap of a petrol container and a gas cylinder, prosecutors said.

Detectives revealed these results of a painstaking four-day examination of the Mercedes saloons.

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The court heard that items including gas cannisters and syringes were found



A detective said he was the first officer to examine the Haymarket car after bomb disposal experts made it safe in the early hours.

The officer said he dressed head-to-toe in protective clothing before removing and cataloguing key evidence.

The green Mercedes was then transported to the Forensic Explosives Laboratory at Fort Halstead, Kent.

Experts discovered the regulator of one of the gas cylinders had been adapted with tape and a white putty-like substance.

They found the two mobile phones were unregistered pay-as-you go models with their numbers written on labels stuck on the back.

In the boot of the car was 100 litres of petrol divided in four 25 litre containers.

Around 900 nails were discovered in bags held in mesh on the back of the front seats and scattered inside, the court heard.

The equipment was covered with two duvets and there were other items including umbrellas, a lampshade and a hi-fi, the jury was told.

Cars were packed with 2,000 nails, jurors were told



When questioned by prosecutor Mark Heywood, the detective confirmed the phones were switched on and displayed missed call messages.

A short brown hair attached to one of the mobile phones came from Kafeel Ahmed, the jury was told.

Ahmed, 28, drove the second Mercedes and died from fatal injuries suffered in a suicide attack on Glasgow Airport the next day.

Also in the car was a Coca-Cola bottle and a Bounty chocolate bar wrapper carrying Abdulla's DNA.

The second car, a blue Mercedes, was examined on a ramp outside the Westminster Council car pound in Park Lane.

It was clamped and towed away after a traffic warden found it parked at a bus stop in the early hours.

Bomb disposal experts used a robot to smash one of the car's windows so they could look inside.

They found a similar improvised bomb, again using mobile phones, gas cylinders and a further 900 nails.

Abdulla's DNA was found on tape used to hold electrical wiring together and Ahmed's DNA was found on a fast-food wrapper.

A small camping gas-style butane gas cylinder was taped underneath the driver's seat, Mr Heywood said.

He said: 'These were examinations that took place over a number of days, not hours. Effectively taking the vehicle and its contents apart.'

The trial continues.





