Revealed: Student days of Sri Lanka bomb plotter at UK university

One of the masterminds behind the Sri Lanka suicide bombings lived in London and spent a year at Kingston University on an aerospace engineering course, The Telegraph can disclose.

The Islamic State terrorist, named today as Abdul Lathief Jameel Mohamed, spent a year at the university in south west London in the academic year 2006 to 2007, according to well-placed sources, before travelling to Melbourne in Australia for a postgraduate course.

Intelligence agents are now combing through connections made in the UK to examine whether he could have been radicalised in this country – and whether he could have been in contact with jihadists at that time.

Intelligence officers will also be looking at…