A 26-year-old Nigerian Master’s student at Dundee University, Scotland, Somtochukwu Okwuoha, has been jailed for 40 months for making terrorist threats against staff and students of the school.
The BBC reports that Mr. Okwuoha who is an international energy studies student, also faces deportation after a Perth Sheriff Court found him guilty of the charge.
During the trial, witnesses revealed how the student had claimed to have a military background and that he was capable of making bombs and unleashing a deadly virus on the city.
Mr. Okwuoha, who arrived in the United Kingdom in 2021, also stated that he had enlisted the terror group, ISIS, to help bomb the university and told staff of his plan to target the city in a chemical attack.
Mr. Okwuoha was found guilty of threatening to murder staff at the university and committing terrorist crimes between December 2021 and June 2022.
He was found guilty of threatening to commit mass murder, using biological weapons, revealing staff details to international authorities and claiming to have planted bombs.
He was also found guilty of threatening to behead police officers and detonate bombs he had planted at Dundee University.
