More guilty pleas in terror trial

11:32am Monday 21st July 2008

TWO more defendants in the transatlantic flight terror trial have pleaded guilty to conspiring to cause a nuisance by making martyrdom videos.

Arafat Waheed Khan, 26, of Walthamstow, east London and Waheed Zaman, 23, also of Walthamstow, entered the guilty pleas this morning at Woolwich Crown Court.

They are among eight men, including two from High Wycombe, accused of plotting to blow of transatlantic flights in mid-air using liquid explosives, smuggled on board in drinks bottles.

Khan and Zaman join five co-defendents in pleading guilty to the new, additional charge.

Assad Sarwar, of Walton Drive, Totteridge, and Umar Islam, 30, formerly of Chairborough Road, Desborough, along with Ahmed Ali, Tanvir Hussain and Ibrahim Savant, all from east London, entered guilty pleas to the same charge last week.

Sarwar, 28, along with Ali, 27, and Hussain, 27, also pleaded guilty to a fourth additional charge of conspiracy to cause explosions, but not on board passenger jets.

A jury must still decide if the eight defendants in the trial are guilty of conspiring to murder.