London taxi driver Anis Sardar convicted of murdering US soldier with roadside bomb in Iraq

 
Roadside bomb plot: Anis Sardar, from Wembley, was convicted at Woolwich Crown Court
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Robin de Peyer21 May 2015
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A London taxi driver has been convicted of murdering an American soldier with an improvised explosive in Iraq.

Anis Abid Sardar, 38, was found guilty of the plot at Woolwich Crown Court today in a landmark legal ruling after a deadly campaign to kill US soldiers fighting in Iraq.

Sardar, from Wembley, was responsible for the death of 34 year-old Sergeant First Class Randy Johnson, of 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment.

A bomb he had built had hit the armoured vehicle Sgt Johnson was travelling in after Sardar's lethal weapons were planted in or around the road west out of Baghdad in 2007, the court heard.

The black cab driver built bombs as part of a "deadly" campaign to kill Americans fighting in the country.

Sardar was snared some seven years after Sgt Johnson's death when officials at the FBI's Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Centre found his fingerprints on some of the bombs.

A jury of seven women and five men took 11 hours and 16 minutes to find him guilty of murder and conspiracy to murder.

The defendant remained calm as the verdicts were read out.

Judge Mr Justice Globe said he would sentence Sardar on Friday morning.

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