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A student who attempted to blow up a London tube teach with a home made bomb instructed a chum he was hoping she could be 'raped by using refugees'.

Damon Smith faces a prolonged jail sentence after being convicted of planting an explosive device on a Jubilee Line carriage on his way to university.

Speaking after his trial on the Old Bailey, a former friend claimed the 20-12 months-antique abused her after becoming infatuated when they struck up a bond in their homeland in Devon in 2012.

The young female stated Smith posted photographs of her in her underclothes on Facebook and sent her a chilling message reading: 'I wish you very well to your u . S . Complete of Syrians aka rape-u-guees killing anyone and f****** up your u . S ..'

Damon Smith planted an explosive tool on a London tube teach after getting to know ISIS terrorists on-line. The court heard he had a protracted-strolling fascination with weapons and bombs

A trial at the Old Bailey heard Smith have been inquisitive about bombs and explosions since the age of 10 and researched a way to construct them the usage of ISIS propaganda magazines he found on-line.

Smith even took a selfie with Paris attacker Abdelhamid Abaaoud in the heritage while the killer's photograph became shown on TV.

Smith's former friend instructed The Sun the might-be killer 'suddenly flipped' after a 12 months, hacking her Facebook account, posting photographs and sending messages to her mom. 

She brought: 'When I met him he changed into the most endearing man or woman on the planet. As soon as I went returned home (overseas) he commenced doing this horrible stuff. It broke me.' 

Meanwhile the mom of the guns-obsessed pupil blamed 'YouTube poison' for corrupting her son.  

His mom Antonitza Smith, 47, blamed terrorist movies on social media for leading her son off track and stated the 'Government need to ban' sites like YouTube.

Police pictures suggests the excited-searching pupil answering questions for the duration of his interview

She advised the Telegraph: 'How to make a bomb - that should not be on YouTube due to the fact humans replica, specifically prone humans.

'Whatever humans put on YouTube, broadcast on YouTube - how to make a bomb, a way to blow up a car, hacking and many others - it's illegal sincerely.

'The government have to ban it so it might store some other baby from what my son has gone thru.'

In his police interview, an excited-searching Smith informed detectives he left the bomb on the train 'as a prank' after realising he had ' hours to kill before his next maths lesson'.

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Smith smirked after his arrest and at some point of his trial, but jurors have been told this became because of his Asperger's Syndrome.

At an early court docket listening to, his mother stood up in the public gallery and shouted out to defend her son, who become defined as nevertheless 'tied to her apron strings'.

She said he 'failed to recognize what he turned into doing' and informed him she cherished him.

Former altar boy Smith made his very own bomb the use of a Christmas tree mild, a £2 clock from Tesco, sparklers and a thermos flash packed with ball bearings.

He left the device in an Adidas holdall, which had 'UKIM' published on it -  that means UK Islamic Mission, on a educate at North Greenwich Tube station - then headed off for his morning lecture.

The tool didn't burst off and the driving force took it into his cab thinking it changed into lost property. He then realised it become a bomb and will burst off at any second.

Smith became arrested after CCTV footage of him planting the bag on the educate was related to footage of him leaving the station.

The student, who became 19 on the time, claimed he had only planted the bomb to purpose delays and see if it would make the news.

He denied ownership of explosives with purpose to hazard life and reason critical injury, but was convicted through a jury following per week-lengthy trial on the Old Bailey after less than an hour's deliberations. 

Chilling CCTV pictures shows the moment Smith steps off the train at London Bridge, with the home made bomb propped up towards the seat by way of the door

The might-be bomber looked taken aback because the jury's verdict turned into read out however did not communicate.

Smith, who grew up in Newton Abbot, Devon, did not provide proof at his trial however informed a psychiatrist he were interested by bombs given that he turned into 10 and started gaining knowledge of their layout and construction using ISIS propaganda magazines. 

He had moved to London along with his mother to take a look at laptop forensics at London Metropolitan University only some weeks before planting the device.

Smith said he made his first duplicate pipe bomb elderly 14 after studying the Anarchist's Cook Book online.

He is a judo black belt and an avid poker participant and had won £500 from an online game on the morning he planted the bomb. 

Smith had published a video of himself firing a blank-firing pistol online earlier than the incident

A Dr Ian Cummings stated in a psychiatric report: 'He recalled looking the Boston Bombings and downloading the Al Qaeda mag Inspire and visited some Islamic web sites.

'He stated on the time he did not think it was an difficulty - he notion it became just an hobby.'

Of the bomb plot, he stated: 'He said he desired to make a smoke bomb and had no expectation that it'd cause damage - he admitted he had used ball bearings but more to give an authentic appearance than to reason harm.'

On the morning of 20 October remaining 12 months, Smith boarded a Jubilee Line educate at Surrey Quays with the tool in a bag and then modified at Southwark to move in the opposite direction.

He primed the timer mechanism at the device on the educate through placing batteries into the clock and then left the bag at the teach between Southwark and London Bridge.

Pictures launched during the trial show the family items Smith used to construct the bomb

The most important price become made from 152.8g of the explosive cloth in a silver steel flask

Materials: Metropolitan Police have released a picture of a number of the additives Damon Smith used to make a domestic-made bomb

Two members of the general public spotted it and alerted the driving force at North Greenwich station.

But the driver thought it become lost belongings and took it with him into his cab - it turned into simplest on double checking that he noticed the wires protruding from the lower back of the clock.

Both the educate and platform at North Greenwich have been evacuated and the tool turned into then made safe via cutting a wire.

Had the device detonated as planned, it would have long past off simply as passengers were leaving the platform, doubtlessly killing rankings of people.

Later that night, Smith started out making Google searches to attempt to locate information of his bomb.

An explosives expert instructed the court that the tool become viable but the initiator might not had been powerful sufficient to ignite it

Home-made: Damon Smith created a bomb after studying an article approximately how to make a tool the use of matters from round the home

When he was arrested the following day on his university campus with the aid of armed officers, he changed into carrying a replica of the Koran in his bag along together with his lecture notes.

At the south London deal with he shared with his mother police found bomb-making commands and a shopping listing of bomb components.

They additionally recovered a clean-firing pistol and a video of him firing the gun he had uploaded to YouTube.

Smith did now not supply evidence at trial, but his criminal crew claimed the bomb become only a prank

He additionally had a carbon-dioxide powered revolver designed to hearth ball bearings and a sheath knife which had also featured in YouTube movies.

An photograph of a handgun labelled '2016 Islamic State fighter' become observed on his university computer, and he changed into located to have 'liked' diverse movies of explosions.

Smith had pix of ISIS warring parties and had looked for troubles of the fear organization's online mag Dabiq.

The trouble he downloaded featured an article about the bomb which introduced down a Russian airliner on 31 October 2015.

Police discovered the photograph of him and Abaaoud on an iPad recovered from his grandparent's house.

He told officers that he were delivered up a Christian but notion Islam turned into 'more genuine' because the Koran expected medical statistics like finger prints.

He stated he did not without a doubt training the faith even though he examine the Koran and on occasion prayed within the morning when 'handy'. 

Richard Carey-Hughes QC, for Smith, described him as a 'white boy from Devon' and 'tied to his mother's apron strings'.

He became no longer charged with any terror offences, after the Crown Prosecution Service determined they could not prove he changed into radicalised.

He will be sentenced on a date yet to be set and faces a lengthy prison term.

A YouTube spokesman stated: 'We do now not permit bomb-making films on YouTube and if there may be content material giving coaching on the way to perform harmful sports at the platform, we speedy take away it while it's flagged.'

Former altar boy's fascination with bombs grew into sickening plan

Damon Smith had a solitary formative years accumulating Star Wars figures, capturing YouTube videos of his canine Skippy - and making bombs.

It turned into a characteristic of his Asperger's Syndrome that the younger pc forensics pupil had hassle making pals and regarding different humans as he developed repetitive patterns of behaviour and hobbies.

Smith grew up as an only infant in Newton Abbot in Devon and moved to London with his mother in June last yr earlier than beginning a course at London Metropolitan University, primarily based at the Holloway campus.

Smith had moved to London from Devon along with his mom Antonitza. His barrister defined him as 'tied to his mother's apron strings'

During his first appearance at Westminster Magistrates' Court his mother Antonitza, 47 stood up and yelled: 'He did no longer realize what he become doing. He has Asperger's.'

She delivered: 'I am sorry but he does not recognize... I love you.'

The former altar boy, who were given an A grade in GCSE religious research, became interested in Islam even though he stated he become no longer intense.

YouTube movies confirmed Smith playing with his dog, giving an academic on the way to draw Bart Simpson and a demonstration of his series of aftershaves, consisting of Paco Rabanne and James Bond.

A psychiatric report via Dr Ian Cumming additionally discovered Smith's longstanding dark obsession with guns of a wide variety.

At the age of 10, Smith first became interested in bomb-making as 'some thing to do when he turned into bored'.

The court heard he had been interested by explosives in view that he changed into a infant

And on the age of 12, he were given a police baton and nunchucks from the US.

Jurors noticed pictures and video of Smith posing with his collection, which include a clean-firing self-loading pistol, a BB gun, knuckleduster and a knife.

He had a keen hobby in what they could do too, having seemed up info of the Boston Marathon bombing, the 1999 London nail bomber and different atrocities around the arena.

In 2013, Smith changed into briefly a member of Urban Self Protection in Newton Abbott, a membership run by using a police officer to teach youngsters talents to defend themselves at the streets.

The officer observed Smith 'over-enthusiastic however properly-behaved' and said he requested quite a few questions on what weapons he could bring legally. 

Smith, who refused to provide proof, smiled at some stage in his Old Bailey trial watched by way of his mother within the public gallery, despite the fact that jurors were advised his behaviour changed into connected to his situation.

Defence attorney Richard Carey-Hughes QC argued there was no evidence that he modified from 'clinging to his mom's apron strings to a soldier of Islam'.

But prosecutor Jonathan Rees QC advised jurors: 'It may be you finish the motivation for his moves are rooted inside the reality of his hobby in constructing an IED and his interest in occasions wherein an IED were used within the beyond.

'He desired to set it off in a public place wherein others had achieved earlier than him. This fixation and shortage of empathy allayed any subject he may also have had for the effects.'