Abdul Muneem Patel
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Abdul Muneem Patel is one of the suspects arrested in the UK in connection to the 2006 transatlantic aircraft terrorist plot in the United Kingdom
, and one of the nineteen whose accounts were frozen by the Bank of England
. He was the youngest of the arrested suspects, being only 17 years old at the time.
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United Kingdom
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, and one of the nineteen whose accounts were frozen by the Bank of England
Bank of England
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. He was the youngest of the arrested suspects, being only 17 years old at the time.
Convicted and charges
He was jailed for six months at the Old Bailey in October 2007 after a jury found him guilty of having a terrorism-related explosives manual.Background
Abdul Muneem Patel grew up in east London as the son of Muslim immigrants from Gujarat, IndiaIndia
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
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