The plans made behind the door of an ordinary flat in a quiet Liverpool suburb nearly ended in an atrocity that would have haunted the city forever.
For months, Emad Al Swealmeen plotted and schemed, ordering the lethal components of the device he later detonated in a taxi yards from the entrance of Liverpool Women's Hospital in Crown Street, Toxteth.
Thankfully, and seemingly by sheer luck, no-one died in the blast other than Al Swealmeen, and the only other person hurt was the taxi driver, Kirkdale dad David Perry. Mr Perry miraculously survived without life-changing injuries.
