A resident of Neuk Crescent, Houston, outside Glasgow, Bilal Abdullah was born on 17 September 1980 in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire,[1] where his father, also a doctor, worked.
[3][4] He had links to the Sunni Wahabist[5] sect and radical Islamic groups,[1][6] and had been disciplined for spending too much time on the Internet at the Royal Alexandra Hospital.
[2] Abdullah and Kafeel Ahmed were identified as the men who planted car bombs in London on 29 June 2007 and attempted an attack at Glasgow Airport the next day.
Receipts and CCTV images discovered by police showed Ahmed bought components for an improvised bomb, including nails, from hardware store B&Q.
After filling the Jeep with explosive material, Abdullah and Ahmed left early the following morning, driving around the Loch Lomond area for several hours before attempting their failed attack on Glasgow Airport.
Prosecutors said that a laptop owned by Dr. Abdullah-found in the Jeep that crashed into the air terminal—showed that the two men had studied blueprints for the bombs that they had found on Islamic extremists' Web sites.
"[18] On 17 December 2008, he was convicted at Woolwich Crown Court of conspiracy to murder, and sentenced to life imprisonment with a requirement that he spend at least 32 years in prison.