A homeless man who sparked a terror alert onboard a Manchester practice by making violent threats about 9/11 and the Taliban earlier than telling police he was Osama Bin Laden has been jailed for 18 months.
Mohammed Khalil Khan, 50, boarded a practice at Manchester Victoria and started ‘making threats to commit future acts of violence’, a court docket heard.
Khan sparked alarm amongst passengers by making feedback concerning the 9/11 terror assault on the World Commerce Centre in New York, the Taliban, in addition to slicing folks’s heads off.
He was jailed for 18 months at Preston Crown Court docket right now after pleading responsible to possessing a bladed article in a public place.
Mohammed Khalil Khan, 50, boarded a practice at Manchester Victoria and started ‘making threats to commit future acts of violence’, a court docket heard
Khan had boarded a practice at Manchester Victoria station heading to Clitheroe, Lancashire, on August 9 2021.
A member of employees was alerted by a passenger to Khalil making threats to commit acts of violence and making feedback concerning the atrocities of 9/11 and the Taliban.
The member of employees adopted the passenger to the carriage that Khan was occupying earlier than returning to the entrance of the practice to name 999.
The practice stopped at Darwen the place the suspect was met by a staff of officers, with passengers being ushered from the practice to security.
The station was locked down and the railway line closed for a number of hours.
Khan was then detained the place he verbally abused officers and have become aggressive.
The street by Darwen Railway Station was closed on August 9 2021 as the military bomb disposal squad carried out X-rays of luggage belonging to Khan
Following a search of a bag that Khan was in possession of a knife was discovered and he was arrested.
At an earlier court docket listening to, Blackburn magistrates had been advised the railway line was closed for a number of hours as the military bomb disposal squad carried out X-rays of luggage belonging to Khan.
He had made feedback concerning the New York World Commerce Heart terror assault on the practice and later advised police he was Osama Bin Laden.
A passenger approached the practice guard shortly after the practice had left Bolton station and reported considerations over the feedback being made by Khan. He additionally mentioned he may see wires coming from one of many baggage.
Shortly after one other passenger reported listening to Khan saying he was going to chop folks’s heads off.
The police carried out managed explosions after Khan was arrested at Darwen station
Detective Chief Inspector, Kay Dennison, of Counter Terrorism Policing North West, mentioned: This was a terrifying incident for the passengers to be caught on a transferring practice with Khan making such regarding threats.
‘His behaviour led to the practice station the place he was detained being closed off as a precaution, inflicting widespread disruption and a way of panic within the native space.
‘Khan’s behaviour was frankly very worrying and utterly unacceptable to trigger concern in a public place.
‘I would wish to thank the members of the general public who reported Khan and supplied to be witnesses and the practice employees for his or her fast motion in alerting police.’