British men face bomb plot retrial
Prosecutors seek retrial of seven men accused of plotting liquid bomb explosions.
Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service said the seven men should face a retrial on every count the jury had failed to agree on.
Sir Ken Macdonald QC, the director of public prosecutions, said: “I have today concluded that the prosecution should apply to retry each of these defendants on every count that the recently discharged jury failed to agree upon.
“This will include a count that each defendant conspired to detonate improvised explosive devices on transatlantic passenger aircraft. We shall be returning to court to make this application in due course.”
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Thousands of international flights from London were affected and liquids were banned from aircraft in 2006 after British police claimed they had uncovered a plot to blow up planes midway across the Atlantic. |