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Airline bomb accused 'shocked' by trial

Updated on 08 September 2009

By Channel 4 News

The only defendant cleared over the plot to bomb transatlantic airliners, Donald Stewart-Whyte, talks to Channel 4 News for the first time about his ordeal.

Donald Stewart-Whyte

In written answers to questions put to him via his lawyer, art student Donald Stewart-Whyte said he now wanted to put his life back on track.

Whyte, the son of a former Conservative party election agent who became a Muslim just months before his arrest, said the fact that he'd been included in the trial had been a shock.

His mother also spoke to us, saying she was relieved that her son had been cleared.

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