Teen who bombed UK subway imprisoned for at least 34 years

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(AP Photo/Frank Augstein, FILE). FILE - In this file photo dated Friday, Sept. 15, 2017, showing a police forensic tent on the platform next to the train on which a homemade bomb exploded at Parsons Green subway station in London. Teenage Iraqi asylum-... (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, FILE). FILE - In this file photo dated Friday, Sept. 15, 2017, showing a police forensic tent on the platform next to the train on which a homemade bomb exploded at Parsons Green subway station in London. Teenage Iraqi asylum-...
(Metropolitan Police via AP). FILE - In this undated photo issued by London's Metropolitan Police, showing teenage Iraqi asylum-seeker Ahmed Hassan who has been sentenced Friday March 23, 2018, to at least 34-years in prison for injuring 51 people in a... (Metropolitan Police via AP). FILE - In this undated photo issued by London's Metropolitan Police, showing teenage Iraqi asylum-seeker Ahmed Hassan who has been sentenced Friday March 23, 2018, to at least 34-years in prison for injuring 51 people in a...

LONDON (AP) - A teenage Iraqi asylum-seeker who told police he had been trained by the Islamic State group has been sentenced to at least 34 years in prison for bombing a London subway train and injuring 51 people.

A judge gave 18-year-old Ahmed Hassan Friday a life sentence with a requirement that he serve a minimum term of 34 years. A jury last week convicted Hassan of attempted murder in the September 2017 attack.

Judge Charles Haddon-Cave called Hassan "a dangerous and devious individual" and said he plotted the subway bombing with "ruthless determination" while pretending to be a model asylum-seeker.

The homemade bomb he placed on a packed London Underground train only partially detonated at Parsons Green station. Prosecutors said there probably would have been fatalities if the device had functioned properly.

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