Telford train bomb hoax caller is given court order

Tehfoor Javeed, 18, received a two-year restraining order against National Rail after admitting two charges of making a bomb hoax when calling from help points at Wellington train station and the town's leisure centre.

The teenager was also given another two-year restraining order against all emergency services which forbids him from calling 999 unless in a real emergency.

He was handed a 12 month community order with supervision and 36 hours at Willowdene Farm attendance centre, when he appeared before Shrewsbury Magistrates for sentencing yesterday.

Javeed, from Victoria Avenue, Wellington, sparked a frantic search at Birmingham New Street station when he called National Rail's enquiries line claiming there were four bombs inside a red suitcase on a platform.

Just hours later he also claimed there were explosives on board a train running between Birmingham and Aberystwyth which would detonate in 10 minutes.

Javeed also used a help point at Newtown train station in Mid Wales to tell the operator a gunman had shot him in the leg – but police on the train he boarded found him uninjured.

Javeed, who lives in Victoria Avenue in Wellington, had used a withheld number to make the bomb hoax calls – but during the call told the operator his number, the court heard.

Mrs Becky Jones, prosecuting told Shrewsbury Magistrates Court at an earlier hearing: "At 7.22pm on August 28, National Rail enquiries received a call from a withheld number.

"The caller said there were four bombs in a red suitcase on platform four at Birmingham New Street Station.

"He refused to give his name but gave the telephone number he was calling from.

"Police officers searched the station but no suitcase was found and the station was not evacuated.

"At 10.19pm on the same date another call was received saying there was a bomb in a toilet on the 9.10pm New Street to Aberystwyth train which would detonate in 10 minutes.

"He gave the same telephone number as the previous call and police were able to confirm he was the owner of that phone number."

Javeed received a warning in 2011 and was convicted in 2013 of earlier bomb hoaxes, the court heard.

Mr John McMillan, for Javeed, said: "Mr Javeed's intellectual capacity is not the same as his chronological age. He knows what he did was wrong but he does not have the ability to grasp the full weight and impact of his actions."