London: Indian doctor Sabeel Ahmed was sentenced to 18 months in jail after he pleaded guilty to withholding information about his brother's suicide plot to blow up Glasgow Airport, but will be deported back to his home country immediately because of the time served on remand.

26-year-old Sabeel, who hails from Bangalore, was released last night into the custody of immigration services and will be voluntarily deported.

Sentencing him at the Old Bailey court here yesterday, Justice Calvert-Smith said he accepted there was no sign of him being an extremist or party to extremist views, but observed that he should have shared his knowledge with the authorities about terror activities of his brother Kafeel Ahmed.

As an international doctor, Sabeel was on a year-long "limited registration" with the General Medical Council, which lapsed last July.

Kafeel drove a burning Jeep Cherokee into the Glasgow terminal building on June 30 last year. He died in a hospital weeks later due to the severe burn injuries he sustained in the botched attack.

Sabeel, who worked at Halton hospital in Runcom, pleaded guilty in the court and admitted that he had failed to inform the police regarding the terrorist attack. He was arrested from Liverpool on June 30 in connection with the failed terror plot.
Source : PTI