Algerian ‘Al Qaeda’ terrorist jailed in UK

A suspected al Qaeda terrorist has been sentenced to life at the Old Bailey. In a Manchester raid in 2003 he had stabbed and killed police officer DC Stephen Oake. The AWOL asylum seeker Kamel Bourgass’s flat was raided following the discovery of a suspected chemical weapons laboratory in a north London flat. They found recipes and ingredients for poisons including ricin, cyanide and botulinum, and plans to make explosive devices. The 31 year old was convicted of plotting to spread the deadly poison ricin in London, stabbing 3 officers and the murder of PC Oake. [0:28 BST 14/04/05]