Somtochukwu Okwuoha, a Nigerian Master’s student who made terrorist threats against his school. Dundee University has been jailed for 40 months, and to be deported after his release from prison.
The 26-year-old claimed he had enlisted a Sunni jihadist group, Isis to help bomb the university and told staff he planned to target the city in a chemical attack.
The International Energy Studies student had earlier been found guilty of seven charges by a jury.
Sheriff William Wood on Friday told Okwuoha that his presence in the United Kingdom is not conducive to the public good, and therefore recommended his deportation in due course.
The trial heard that Okwuoha came to the UK in 2021 and formed a friendship with a fellow student, who rebuffed his advances.
Witnesses described how Okwuoha claimed he had a military background and was capable of making bombs and unleashing a deadly virus on the city.
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.
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.
