Man admits restaurant bomb attack

A Muslim convert has admitted launching a failed suicide nail-bomb attack on an Devon restaurant.

Nicky Reilly, 22, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to attempted murder at Exeter's Giraffe restaurant on 22 May.

Reilly, from Plymouth, had been preparing the attack when a bomb went off in his hands in a toilet cubicle.

Police believe Reilly, said to have learning difficulties, was "preyed upon and radicalised by others". He will be sentenced on 21 November.

Appearing in court via a video link, under the name Mohammad Rashid Saeed-Alim, Reilly pleaded guilty to two of four original charges.

As well as attempted murder, he admitted engaging in preparation for terrorism in that he researched targets and how to make bombs, and prepared three of them in the restaurant.