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Convicted terrorist who tried to blow up Israeli plane fails to win parole

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Judge upholds decision that Nezar Hindawi must remain in jail after planting bomb in pregnant fiancee's hand luggage in 1986

A convicted terrorist who has served 26 years in prison for trying to blow up an Israeli airliner has lost his latest high court attempt to be freed on parole.

Lawyers for Nezar Hindawi, 57, argued that he no longer posed a security threat anywhere in the world and could safely be released on licence.

Mr Justice Blake, sitting in London, expressed concerns about the case, but ruled that a Parole Board decision that the Jordanian citizen of Palestinian origin must remain behind bars was both "rational and lawful on the information before it".

Hindawi, who faces deportation to Jordan when he is eventually freed, is serving a 45-year jail sentence for attempting to plant a bomb on an El Al passenger plane in 1986.

He hid the bomb in his pregnant fiancee's hand luggage without her knowledge on a flight from London Heathrow to Tel Aviv.

It could have killed 375 people but was found by security staff.


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