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Man sentenced to five years over dark web grenades deal
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LONDON: A fugitive caught by an FBI agent while trying to buy hand grenades on the dark web has been sentenced to five years in jail.
Father-of-three Mohammed Humza, 29, of Watford, failed to turn up for his Old Bailey trial in October and was suspected of travelling to Azad Kashmir. He was found guilty in his absence of attempting to possess an explosive substance for unlawful purposes between July 14 and September 5 2016.
On Friday, prosecutor Ben Holt told the court Humza remained at large and was still “very much wanted”. He said the grenades Humza attempted to buy had the potential to cause “indiscriminate harm” if detonated and could have been lethal to people standing nearby. In mitigation, Francis McGrath suggested Humza’s criminal past had involved offences of dishonesty rather than violence.
By Press Association 2021
Mohammed Humza
A fugitive caught by an FBI agent while trying to buy hand grenades on the dark web has been sentenced to five years in jail.
Father-of-three Mohammed Humza, 29, of Watford, failed to turn up for his Old Bailey trial in October and was suspected of travelling to the Pakistani part of Kashmir.
He was found guilty in his absence of attempting to possess an explosive substance for unlawful purposes between July 14 and September 5 2016.
On Friday, prosecutor Ben Holt told the court Humza remained at large and was still “very much wanted”.
He said the grenades Humza attempted to buy had the potential to cause “indiscriminate harm” if detonated and could have been lethal to people standing nearby.