Kafeel Ahmed

Kafeel Ahmed was the son of two doctors and had studied mechanical engineering at university in his native India before travelling to Northern Ireland to take a masters degree in aeronautical engineering at Queens College, Belfast, between 2001 and 2003.

In 2004 he went to Cambridge to take a PhD at Anglia Ruskin University. The doctorate was due to be completed in 2007 but Ahmed was forced to abandon his studies and return to India in June that year because of illness in his family.

The student was allowed to continue his PhD on a part-time basis while based in Bangalore. He visited Britain in September 2006 and then in May 2007 for the attacks.

It was while in Cambridge in 2004 and 2005 that it is claimed he became good friends with the two defendants, who were studying medicine in the town. Ahmed’s brother, Sabeel, was also studying to become a doctor in Cambridge.

Ahmed’s life revolved around his religion. He lived at a flat in Gilbert Road owned by a charitable trust called The Islamic Academy. The property was rented out to "professional men" and had a prayer room where all four men were said to pray together.

The prosecution claim that he used the name "KingKafeel" on an internet instant messenger system used to communicate with Mr Abdulla.

He died aged 28 from burns four weeks after the Jeep laden with petrol and gas canisters was driven into the terminal building at Glasgow Aiport.

Ahmed's brother, Sabeel, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey earlier this year to an offence connected to the bombings but was not involved in the plot.

Sabeel Ahmed worked at the Warrington Hospital at the time of the attack and lived in shared accommodation in Ramilies Road, Liverpool.

Bilal Abdulla

Bilal Talal Abdul Samad Abdulla was born in Iraq and began studying for his medical career in Baghdad.

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