Three men cleared of planning to bomb transatlantic airliners may be retried in the UK on charges of conspiracy to murder.
Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions for England, last night revealed he had decided to try Ibrahim Savant, Arafat Waheed Khan and Waheed Zaman for a third time.
They were among eight men tried in connection with an al Qaida-inspired plot to detonate home-made liquid bombs on board flights bound for major North American cities.
On Monday Abdulla Ahmed Ali 28, of Walthamstow, east London, Assad Sarwar, 29, of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, and Tanvir Hussain, 28, of Leyton, east London, were found guilty at London's Woolwich Crown Court of conspiracy to murder by detonating bombs on airliners.
Mr Savant, 28, of Denver Road, Stoke Newington, Khan, 28, of Farnan Avenue, Mr Walthamstow and Mr Zaman, 25, of Queen's Road, Walthamstow, were found not guilty of the airliner plot, but the jury failed to reach verdicts on charges of conspiracy to murder.
A jury also failed to reach verdicts on the trio in 2008.
The final decision on the retrial will rest with a judge.
The arrests of the gang in August 2006 sparked tight restrictions on carrying liquids on to aircraft which initially caused travel chaos.
