The brother of a man that died when his Jeep smashed into Glasgow airport during a terrorist attack today admitted withholding information about the incident.

Sabeel Ahmed, 26, a trained doctor, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to failing to tell police information about the botched suicide attack that would have been of “considerable assistance”. His brother, Kafeel Ahmed, died later from his injuries.

The doctor was arrested near Liverpool Lime Street station on June 30 last year and was charged under the Terrorism Act.

Ahmed, originally from Bangalore in India, but then living in Liverpool, was the third person to be charged in the investigation. Two other men face trial this year accused of conspiracy to cause explosions.

On June 29 last year two cars containing petrol, gas cylinders and mobile phone detonators were discovered in Central London. The next day the burning Jeep Cherokee was driven into the main terminal building at Glasgow Airport.

Jonathan Laidlaw, for the prosecution, told the court that the airport attack was intended to be a suicide mission after the earlier attacks failed.

He said: “One assumes that the nature of the attack in terms of what was planned had changed because of the failed attempts in London.

“They appeared now to have been working on the basis they were likely to be arrested and the attack to be conducted at Glasgow was to be a suicide attack likely to result in the loss of both their lives.”

Mr Laidlaw said that it was the busiest day of the year so far for the airport.

“When outside the terminal, Kafeel Ahmed, who was driving the Jeep, turned the vehicle sharply and crashed it into the pillars to the right hand side of one of the entrance doors," he said.

“He then, having found himself from his perspective out of position, reversed the Jeep and made the first of a number of attempts to drive the vehicle through the airport door, repeatedly hitting pillars and the door frame.

“Despite his efforts, the vehicle became trapped. Those who witnessed him described a set and determined face as he stared forward.

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