A Nigerian Masters student who made terrorist threats against Dundee University has been jailed for 40 months.
The 26-year-old Somto-chukwu Okwuoha claimed he had enlisted the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) to help bomb the university and told staff he planned to target the city in a chemical attack.
Okwuoha, a prisoner at Perth, was found guilty of threatening to murder staff at the university and commit terrorist crime between December 2021 and June 2022.
Witnesses revealed how the student had claimed to have a military background and was capable of making bombs and unleashing a deadly virus on the city.
Okwuoha, who arrived in the United Kingdom in 2021, also stated that he had enlisted the terror group, ISIS, to help bomb the university and told staff of his plan to target the city in a chemical attack.
He was found guilty of threatening to commit mass murder, using biological weapons, revealing staff details to international authorities and claiming to have planted bombs.
He was also found guilty of threatening to behead police officers and detonate bombs he had planted at Dundee University.
The international energy studies student has been ordered to be deported following his release from prison.
