Three men have been jailed for life for plotting to murder as suicide bombers.

Ibrahim Savant, Arafat Khan and Waheed Zaman, of east London, were convicted of conspiracy to murder by a jury at Woolwich Crown Court last week.

Mr Justice Holroyde told the trio they would serve a minimum of 20 years for becoming "footsoldiers" in a wider plot.

The plot's mastermind recruited the men as part of his plan to blow up planes with liquid bombs.

Sentencing the men on Monday, Mr Justice Holroyde accepted that Savant, Khan and Zaman had not been the plan's ringleaders - but they had been prepared to blow themselves up.

"In this dreadful conspiracy the intended role of the footsoldier was to blow himself up and to kill and maim an uncertain number but potentially large number of men, women and children," said the judge.

Abdulla Ahmed Ali, the ringleader, is already serving a life sentence along with five other men, all of whom were arrested in a massive police and MI5 operation in 2006.

and we have to provide food and shelter for these scum …

I am of the mind that they are mentally ill. If they are suicidal, then they need to either be talked out of it, or shown a secluded cliff and told to get on with it.

and we have to provide food and shelter for these scum …

Treat them like undelivered mail and return to sender.

Were they born abroad or here?

Yes but we get to deny them the 72 virgins that they were after for martyrdom.

But wouldn't you swap 72 virgins for a couple of experienced hosemonsters?

Well depends on the virgins? Old and dried like a prune, yes I will swap, but hot legal trouser bursters then go away. Personally martyrdom is not all it cracked up to be. Most of the time your efforts are ignored or ridiculed by people like us.

Supposedly young men who “martyr” themselves as suicide bombers are promised 70 virgins when they get to heaven!!

Does this mean there is sex in heaven, or do they simply get waited on by these “virgins”? And what about the women who martyr themselves? What is their reward? There are some who claim that the promise of 70 virgins may actually be based on a mistranslation of the word for “raisin.” Imagine blowing yourself up only to be rewarded in the afterlife with 70 raisins

Yes but we get to deny them the 72 virgins that they were after for martyrdom.