Terrorist who plotted to bomb Next store at UK shopping centre jailed for 40 years

A TERRORIST who plotted to bomb outside a Next store in Manchester’s Arndale Centre on one of its busiest weekends has been jailed in America. 

Pakistani-born Abid Naseer, 29, was sentenced to 40 years in prison after being found guilty of planning the UK bombing as well as a terrorist attack on the New York subway, a US attorney said.

Naseer, who came to Manchester from Peshawar, Pakistan on a student visa in November 2008, was the head of a UK al-Qaeda cell.