A 26-year-old Nigerian Masters student, Somtochukwu Okwuoha, has been found guilty of making terrorist threats against Dundee University in the United Kingdom. Okwuoha claimed to have enlisted ISIS for a bombing plot against the university and expressed intentions to carry out a chemical attack on the city. The international energy studies student was convicted on seven charges and is now in custody awaiting sentencing next month.
According to reports, witnesses described how Okwuoha, asserting a military background, threatened mass murder on the Dundee University campus. The trial heard that university staff received emails containing terrorist threats, with Okwuoha stating, “Expect a massive bomb explosion at the University of Dundee. I have contacted Isis terrorists to plant bombs on campus. I can assure you staff and students will die in great numbers. 9/11 will be a joke compared to what will happen. Blood will spill, and flesh will be scattered.”
Accommodation officer Shane Taylor testified that Okwuoha accused him of racism and expressed plans to target Scottish people as revenge.
Somtochukwu Okwuoha, currently a prisoner at Perth, faces charges of threatening to murder university staff, committing terrorist crimes, using biological weapons, revealing staff details to international authorities, claiming to have planted bombs, and threatening to behead police officers and detonate planted bombs at Dundee University. The court will also consider a motion for his deportation to Nigeria.
