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BBC News Published image captionSam Parsa was handed a hospital order without limit of time A man who planted an incendiary device in a diplomatic car outside the Iranian embassy has been detained indefinitely. Iranian dissident Sam Parsa, 60, pushed a bottle of flammable liquid into the vehicles exhaust pipe near Hyde Park in central London on 5 September 2018. The Old Bailey heard it was only "pure chance" that it had not gone off. On Thursday, He was made subject to a hospital order without ...

Iranian-born Sam Parsa detained in secure hospital for attempted arson

Sam Parsa, pictured, was sentenced at the Old Bailey this week. Credit: Met Police A man who placed a bottle of flammable liquid in the exhaust pipe of an Iranian diplomatic vehicle has been sentenced under the Mental Health Act. Sam Parsa put the bottle containing a rag soaked in a mix of petrol and diesel into the exhaust of the unattended vehicle in Knightsbridge in September 2018. The bottle was later spotted and removed after a member of the public alerted police officers. Officers...

SHARE A tortured Iranian dissident has been found guilty of trying to petrol bomb a car at the country’s London embassy. Sam Parsa, 59, tried to place a bottle containing petrol, heavy petroleum distillate and a piece of scarf inside the exhaust pipe of a black BMW at the Iranian embassy in South Kensington in September 2018. The Old Bailey heard the bottle could have been ignited by the heat from the car exhaust. He was found guilty of arson with intent to endanger life, Sky News reported. ...

A dissident who claims he was tortured by Iran demanded the release of imprisoned British mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe as he was convicted of trying to torch a diplomatic car outside the Iranian Embassy. IT professional Sam Parsa, 60, was accused of planting a bottle of petrol along with a scarf into the exhaust pipe of a BMW parked outside the offices in Knightsbridge, central London. The Iranian said he was tortured for nearly eight years during the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s, before bein...

BBC News Published image captionBuilders working near the Iranian Embassy found the device before it was triggered A man who planted a viable incendiary device outside the Iranian Embassy in London has been convicted of attempted arson with intent to endanger life. Iranian dissident Sam Parsa, 60, shoved a bottle of petrol and a scarf into the exhaust pipe of a diplomatic car in the early hours of 5 September 2018. Builders working near the embassy in Kensington spotted the device a day later, ...