HOSPITAL BOMBER'S ‘LONE WOLF' PLOT

HE PLANNED ATTACK FOR ‘WEEKS OR MONTHS AS HE BUILT IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVE DEVICE’ | We’re just so sad… we loved him, say couple who gave bomber a home

- Martin Bentham and Anthony France

THE Liverpool hospital bomber was believed to be a lone wolf who spent weeks or even months preparing his attack after learning bomb-making techniques online, it emerged today.

Security sources said that the amount of material for constructing explosive devices found at the home of Emad Al Swealmeen indicated that he had been getting ready to carry out his atrocity for a significant period before the blast at Liverpool Women’s Hospital on Sunday.

They said he was also believed to have acted alone and to have gained both his inspiration and the techniques required to assemble an explosive device on the internet, allowing him to escape detection.

But the sources also admitted that his precise motivation — particularly whether he was inspired by Islamist ideology — and exactly when he began preparing remained a mystery and could take weeks to establish as his phone and computer records are examined for evidence.