19-year-old Gurtej Randhawa has been jailed for eight years by Birmingham Crown Court after he bought a car bomb and a remote detonator to allegedly target his parents during an argument over his white girlfriend. The police replaced the bomb for a dummy before it was delivered.
In November 2017, Randhawa was found guilty of maliciously importing an explosive with intent to endanger life or cause serious injury. He also admitted attempting to import the bomb.
While passing sentence, Justice Cheema-Grubb told Randhawa, “You are plainly highly intelligent and capable of determined manipulation. I have no doubt that this offence was motivated by your desire to live with your girlfriend and attend university together. How the major changes in your life that you wished for were to be achieved, including endangering the life of your father by setting of an explosion. This was an offence of astonishing audacity.”
