US Appeals Court upholds Trinidadian's life sentence

An Appeals Court in the United States has upheld the life sentence imposed on Trinidadian Imam Kareem Ibrahim for his role in a plot to blow up the John F Kennedy International Airport in New York in 2007.



The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, in its ruling on Friday, said it was not swayed by the arguments presented by Ibrahim’s attorneys and that a jury was entitled to find him and his co-conspirators guilty of plotting to blow up the airport.



Ibrahim was arrested in Trinidad in June 2007 and extradited to the US where he was charged along with Guyanese nationals, Russell Defreitas and Abdul Kadir.



They were convicted in 2011.



His attorneys had argued that his testimony was improperly limited and that the evidence seized from Kadir’s home should not have been admitted.