English Defence League rally bomb plotters jailed

Omar Khan, Zohaib Ahmed, Jewel Uddin, Mohammed Saud, Mohammed Hasseen and Anzal Hussain, (clockwise from top left)

Six men from the West Midlands have been jailed for up to 19-and-a-half years each for planning to bomb an English Defence League rally.

Omar Khan, Jewel Uddin, Mohammed Hasseen, Mohammed Saud, Zohaib Ahmed and Anzal Hussain had all admitted terrorism offences in April.
Five of the men took a bomb, knives and sawn-off shotguns to the rally.
But the plotters arrived after the EDL event - held last June in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire - had ended.
They were caught by chance after their car was stopped and found to have no insurance.
'Horrible weapon' At the Old Bailey, Khan, Uddin and Ahmed were sentenced to 19-and-a-half years in jail, with a five-year extension on licence.
Hasseen, Hussain and Saud were jailed for 18 years and nine months, with a five-year extension on licence.
Extended sentences, introduced in England and Wales last year, mean offenders serve at least two thirds of their main sentence in custody. After release, they are on licence in the community for the rest of their sentence plus the extension part.
Sentencing the men, Judge Nicholas Hilliard QC said the explosive device had been a "horrible weapon" that would have caused serious if not fatal injuries.

Five of the men were caught on CCTV in Dewsbury shortly after the rally had disbanded

He said it had not been an amateurish attempt but wide-ranging and determined.
Judge Hilliard told the men: "How was it that you became involved in a crime of this gravity? At least part of the answer to that question must come in the tide of apparently freely available extremist material in which most of you had immersed yourselves."
The judge said the extremist material was "not difficult either to obtain or share".
"In this case, it can only have served to reinforce the defendants' resolve to behave in the hideous way that was planned," he said.
EDL leader Tommy Robinson and his deputy Kevin Carroll called out "God save the Queen" from the public gallery as sentence was passed.
Sobs could be heard from other observers, and shouts of " Allahu Akbar" (God is Great in Arabic).
All of the men except Hasseen travelled to Dewsbury where an EDL rally was taking place on 30 June last year.
The gang's plan only failed because the event finished earlier than expected - they arrived at around 4pm when it had finished shortly after 2pm.
Judge Hilliard said: "There is no reason to suppose that a further attempt may not have been made in the future had the defendants not been apprehended. I find it inconceivable that your resolve would have evaporated."