The Wood Green ricin plot was an alleged bioterrorism plot to attack the London Underground with ricin poison. The Metropolitan Police Service arrested six suspects on 5 January 2003,[1][2] with one more arrested two days later.
Within two days, the Biological Weapon Identification Group at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory in Porton Down were sure that there was no trace of ricin on any of the articles that were found. This fact was initially misreported to other government departments as well as to the public, who only became aware of this in 2005.[3] Reporting restrictions were in place before the public's perceptions could be corrected.[4][5]
The only conviction directly relating to terrorism was of Kamel Bourgass, sentenced to 17 years imprisonment for conspiring "together with other persons unknown to commit public nuisance by the use of poisons and/or explosives to cause disruption, fear or injury" on the basis of five pages of his hand-written notes on how to make ricin, cyanide and botulinum.[6] Bourgass had already been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of detective Stephen Oake, whom he stabbed to death during his arrest in Manchester. Bourgass also stabbed three other police officers in that incident; they all survived. All other suspects were either released without charge, acquitted, or had their trials abandoned.[4] Bourgass had attended meetings of Al-Muhajiroun leading up to the plot.[7]
^"Terror police find deadly poison". BBC. 7 January 2003. Archived from the original on 30 May 2006. Retrieved 18 October 2006.
^Dr Pat Troop — Deputy Chief Medical Officer (7 January 2003). "Concern over ricin poison in the environment". Department of Health (CEM/CMO/2003/1). Archived from the original on 5 February 2007. Retrieved 21 October 2006.
^Smith, George (11 April 2005). "UK Terror Trial Finds No Terror: Not guilty of conspiracy to poison London with ricin". GlobalSecurity.org. Archived from the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 17 October 2006.
^ abSummers, Chris (13 April 2005). "Questions over ricin conspiracy". BBC News. Archived from the original on 1 January 2006. Retrieved 17 October 2006.
^"Terror trial had blanket news ban". BBC. 13 April 2005. Archived from the original on 4 November 2012. Retrieved 18 October 2006.
^Campbell, Duncan (14 April 2005). "The ricin ring that never was". The Guardian. UK. Retrieved 18 October 2006.
^"Gateway to Terror: Anjem Choudary and the Al-Muhajiroun Network" (PDF). Hope not Hate. November 2013. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 April 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
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