Court: Terror trial suspect had a bomb-making video

A TIKTOK user with more than 27,000 followers has gone on trial accused of possessing a bomb-making video explaining how to make an improvised explosive previously used in terror attacks in the UK.

- MATTHEW COOPER News Reporter

Jurors were told a photograph of Adam Mahmood associated with his social media account showed him wearing a balaclava with various weapons, including a bow and arrow, an axe and a sword.

Mahmood, 20, of Platt Brook Way, Sheldon, Birmingham, denies a single count of possessing a recording likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism in April last year.

Opening the case against Mahmood at the city’s Crown Court, prosecutor Sahil Sinha said the defendant argues that he had “a reasonable excuse” to possess the video and did not know it contained information likely to be of use to a person preparing an act of terrorism.

Mr Sinha told jurors the case centred on a video file found on Mahmood’s phone after his arrest in April 2024, which also led to the discovery of several knives and two sharpeners in his bedroom.