Nigerian student jailed 40 months in UK for terrorism threat

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Nigerian student jailed 40 months in UK for terrorism threat

Sentenced Nigerian student Somtochukwu Okwuoha




A 26-year-old Nigerian Masters student at Dundee University, Scotland, Somtochukwu Okwuoha, has been sentenced to 40 months in prison for making terrorism threats against staff and students of the school, BBC reports Friday.

Okwuoha, an international energy studies student, will also be deported after a Peth Sheriff Court found him guilty of the charge.

Witnesses revealed how the student had claimed to have a military background and was capable of making bombs and unleashing a deadly virus on the city.

Okwuoha, who arrived in the United Kingdom in 2021, also stated that he had enlisted the terror group, ISIS, to help bomb the university and told staff of his plan to target the city in a chemical attack.

Sheriff William Wood said, Your presence in the United Kingdom is not conducive to the public good, and I make a recommendation for your deportation in due course.

You were abusive towards her and tried to have her removed from her university course, after he had threatened a fellow female student who refused his advances.

The university decided to suspend you from your course and you turned your attention towards staff.

You threatened mass murder, terrorism, said you would plant bombs and use biological weapons, the charge read.

Okwuoha, a prisoner at Perth, was found guilty of threatening to murder staff at the university and committing terrorist crimes between December 2021 and June 2022.

He was found guilty of threatening to commit mass murder, using biological weapons, revealing staff details to international authorities and claiming to have planted bombs.

He was also found guilty of threatening to behead police officers and detonate bombs he had planted at Dundee University.

˜Blood spill threat

A witness, Keith Mackle, 58, now a retired director of student services, told Perth Sheriff Court he became aware of serious concerns in the autumn of 2021.

He said staff members received emails making terrorist threats.

Expect a massive bomb explosion at the University of Dundee. I have contacted ISIS terrorists to plant bombs on campus.

I can assure you staff and students will die in great numbers. 9/11 will be a joke compared to what will happen.

Blood will spill and flesh will be scattered, another witness stated.

Accommodation officer, Shane Taylor, told the court Okwuoha accused him of being racist and said he planned to wipe out Scottish people as revenge.(The PUNCH)




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