Video: Bristol bomb-plot suspect filmed experiments with explosives
The jury at the 20-year-old's terrorism trial was yesterday shown two short, graphic clips recorded on his mobile phone.
The Crown believes the footage is significant within a mass of evidence showing fanatical tendencies that prove the chemistry student was planning a deadly attack on the Mall Bristol shopping centre in Broadmead.
In one of the clips at his council flat in Comb Paddock, Westbury-on-Trym, Ibrahim says: "Hi, everyone. Today's experiment is with HMTD, or hexamethylene triperoxide diamine."
It then showed him lower a match or flame into a small brown bottle on the carpet, causing a small explosion.
Ibrahim, who changed his first name to Isa when he converted to Islam, was studying chemistry at the City of Bristol College when he made the videos on April 14 last year, three days before his arrest by armed police.
Mark Ellison, prosecuting, said in an un-filmed experiment something went wrong and glass ended up embedded in Ibrahim's right hand and foot.
The jury at Winchester Crown Court saw CCTV footage of Ibrahim's bus journey to the city centre on the night April 14 which showed him examining his injured right hand. Later, at Al-Baseera Mosque in Wade Street, St Jude's, Ibrahim showed Mohammed Shide his injuries, saying he had been mixing chemicals that exploded.
Shide, who first met Ibrahim on April 5, told him he should go to hospital.
But in a statement read to the jury, Shide explained: "He said he didn't want to do this because people might find out what he had been doing and he might get into trouble."
Recovering heroin addict Ibrahim eventually went to Bristol Royal Infirmary on the morning of April 17, accompanied by drugs worker, Ian Vincent.
The jury also heard about conversations he had with Shide when walking from the mosque to the city centre after evening prayer and lectures.
Shide, who was also studying at the college, said: "He never said anything about blowing things up, he just continued to talk about mixing chemicals to see their reactions."
Ibrahim said he wanted to go to Iraq and Palestine and fight with their soldiers, the court heard.
On April 13, he and Shide went to a lecture by "teacher Hassan" at the mosque, where Hassan said suicide bombing was not part of true Islam.
But Ibrahim said people living in the UK and US were "not entirely innocent" because they vote for the government.
The jury heard Shide soon realised he and Ibrahim saw their faith differently.
He added: "He never gave me the impression that he wanted to go out and kill anybody. He just gave me the impression that some of his views were contradictory to the faith of Islam."
When people at the mosque saw Ibrahim's injuries he was asked to leave and went to Al Huda Masjid mosque on Fox Road, Easton, instead.
The jury has previously heard officers discovered an explosive device in a biscuit tin in Ibrahim's fridge and a "suicide vest" hanging from his bedroom door, on April 17 last year.
Ibrahim accepts making an explosive substance, but denies doing so with intent to endanger life or cause serious injury to property. He also denies the preparation of terrorist acts, such as researching, buying materials for and making explosives.
The jury has previously heard how the former Colston's and Bristol Cathedral School pupil bought ingredients that could be used for a home-made HMTD bomb. And CCTV footage showed him allegedly staking out the shopping centre, formerly known as the Galleries.
Yesterday, Mr Ellison, prosecuting, continued to explain in great detail the scores of computer searches Ibrahim made last April relating to terrorism, suicide bombers, and websites showing how to make explosives.
But Ibrahim also saved articles that did not support suicide bombing.
The case continues.
