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From there he went to Cambridge to undertake a three-year doctorate at the Anglia Ruskin University.

There he Ahmed met the two defendants while living at a property owned by a charity called The Islamic Academy.

Friends remember how he was quiet, often sullen during prayer meetings.

Friends recalled how he tried to appear macho and rode a motorbike and dressed in black leathers.

Ahmed was forced to return to India in June 2005 because of a family illness but returned to the UK twice in September 2006 and May 2007.

While overseas, Ahmed’s plotting with Abdulla was revealed in series of late night web chat recovered from a laptop computer.

They revealed the two men discussing their terrorist plans, using in thinly veiled code about plans, projects and timetables.

At one point, Ahmed wrote: “Bro, inshallah , I think we are gonna start experiments sometime soon.”

Abdulla replied: ”Oh cool“ and added a smiley face symbol.

Ahmed was extremely security conscious and feared the plotters would be traced by the police or MI5.

But despite his meticulous preparations the West End, bombs failed because of a simple error - a loose connection.

The failure left Ahmed with no option but suicide.

One off-duty police officer described how Ahmed lay on the floor, chanting Islamic prayers, after setting fire to himself at the airport.

Pc Stewart Ferguson said: “He had his hands in the air lying back chanting, but the only phrase I could make out was ’Allahu Akbar’.

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