Terror jury sent home for weekend

Mr Siddique's trial follows a police operation in Alva

Jurors at the trial of a student facing terrorism charges have been sent home for the weekend without yet having reached a verdict.

The eight women and six men of the jury had spent the day in deliberations in the case of Mohammed Atif Siddique.

The 21-year-old, from Alva in Clackmannanshire, has denied four terrorism-related charges and a breach of the peace.

Judge Lord Carloway asked the jury to return to court on Monday morning.

Mr Siddique has been accused of possessing articles connected with the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism at his Alva home, Ibrox public library, Glasgow Metropolitan College and Glasgow Airport.

Alternatively, he has been charged with collecting items and recording information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism.

Mr Siddique was further charged with providing instructions on using or making firearms and explosives through websites and distributing terrorist publications on websites to encourage acts of terrorism.

A further charge of a breach of the peace claims he showed students images of suicide bombers and beheadings by terrorists, threatened to become a suicide bomber and to carry out acts of terrorism in Glasgow or elsewhere.

All of the offences are alleged to have taken place between March 2003 and April last year.