Richard Reid’s accomplice, Saajid Badat, plead guilty today for plotting to blow up a commercial airliner with a shoe bomb.

Former grammar school pupil Saajid Badat, 25, had a device identical to the one used by fellow Briton Richard Reid.

Today it can be revealed that Badat and Reid met and trained at the same al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan. The original plot involved both men detonating bombs simultaneously on flights from Europe to the US in December 2001.

Reid is sitting in a cozy prison cell in the United States while Badat will spend his years in an English prison. Reid was apprehended after his flight arrived into the United States. Passengers stopped Reid from carrying through on his shoe bombing after they smelled matches and gained control of Reid.