The Guilt Code

Sabeel was arrested on the day of the incident. But there never was a case against him that he had advance knowledge of it; his crime was that he opened an e-mail from his brother Kafeel (who rammed the jeep into the terminal building at Glasgow, killing only himself) well after the incident, and then let all of a couple of hours pass without informing the police about the e-mail he had received. According to closely informed legal sources, Sabeel was finally offered a compromise deal that reversed usual legal logic—he would be out of jail if he pleaded guilty.

Dhiren Barot’s terror fantasies landed him a 40-year sentence