Man jailed after downloading 3D printing gun instructions
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The first Islamist extremist to be found with plans for 3D-printed firearms has been jailed for seven years after using a far-right internet channel to download the instructions. Abdiwahid Mohamed, 33, from Neasden, north London, had used encrypted messaging app Telegram - nicknamed "terrorgram" by experts - to download instructions from a far-right extremist and was trying to buy a 3D printer on eBay.
Police discovered the documents along with messages supporting ISIS after downloading his phone during a "schedule 7" stop at Heathrow Airport. It marks the first time that an Islamist has been found with instructions on how to make the homemade weapons which were developed by anti-gun control fanatics in the US.
Mohamed arrived at Heathrow Airport Terminal 3 on a Kenyan Airways Flight from Nairobi on 9 February 2022, following a visit to Kenya where his wife and children live. He was released but his phone was later analysed and police discovered that he was using Telegram accounts to store 36 files which contained plans showing how to manufacture firearms using a 3D printer.
He was using a private channel called 'Tactic' as a repository for materials forwarded from another channel called 'Between the Lines of Grift', the original source of the information. Between the Lines was set up by Pavol Benadik, a Slovakian far-right extremist who was a leading member of an online group called the Terrorgram Collective, which was banned by the government last April.
