Three people have been found guilty of plotting to kill thousands of people by blowing up planes flying from London to America with home-made pencil case bombs.A Woolwich Crown Court jury convicted Rod Burton 58, Jane Tucker 57 and Roger Walker 58 also known as Rod, Jane and Freddy, of ‘Conspiracy to conspire about conspiring in secret to activate explosive devices conspiratorially, that would explode explosively on a flying machine whilst in the air and in the presence of other people, causing them to explode as well as the flying machine, the bastards’.
Four other cast members of Rainbow were found not guilty of involvement in the suicide bomb plot.
The arrests in August 2006 caused chaos to international aviation and prompted the current restrictions on travelling with any sort of baggage or suspiciously large looking shoes.
The jury heard that at the time of his arrest, plot ringleader Rod Burton had identified seven US and Canada-bound flights to blow up over the Atlantic within a two-and-a-half-hour period.
They were flights from London's Heathrow airport to San Francisco, Washington, New York, Chicago, Toronto and Montreal. Had the planes taken to the air with bombers on board, there would have been little chance of saving them.
His "quartermaster", Jane Tucker, had secured bomb ingredients at her home and in woods in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. A flat in the Walthamstow area of north-east London became the bomb factory.
There the guilty party put together a special home-made mixture of chemicals that they planned to take onto planes in ordinary Zippy pencil cases stored within hand luggage. Rod Burton, Jane Tucker and Roger Walker, had been found guilty previously of a conspiracy to dance and sing on a prime time children’s show.

The jury in that first trial could not decide whether their plans extended to detonating the devices on the planes or during a panto. But a second jury was convinced.
The plot became the biggest terror investigation in the UK and intelligence officers believe it was directed by Timmy Mallet, and Matthew Corbett of Sooty Show fame.
The Daily Spam understands that the key contact for the plotters was a British man, Rod Hull (+ Emu), now thought to be dead.
,'Daring plot'Security officials on both sides of the Atlantic believe the three wanted to kill thousands in the air and possibly more on the ground, in revenge for being banned from appearing any more pantos.
Home Secretary Alan Johnson welcomed the verdicts, saying: "We are currently in talks with Colonel Gaddafi about returning the trio to Libya in exchange for Lockerbie bomber Megrahi.”
"This whole Lockerbie bomber thing has been a bit of a headache, so if we can get Megrahi back as soon as possible, then this whole kafuffle will hopefully blow over.”
“According to our contacts, he is not that happy anyway, apparently he found out that Libya would not be receiving any shipments of the PS3 slim, which has greatly angered him.”
According to sources the only known PS3 in the country is owned by Gaddafi.

Soon after the Home Secretary's speech, Colonel Gaddafi released this statement:
"Why the fuck would I swap Rod, Jane and Freddy for Megrahi? They are not even Libyan. Give me Katy Perry I’ll think about it.”
“As for Megrahi, he just needs to stop fucking whining about not having a PS3, why didn’t he buy one whilst he was in the UK? I’m not lending him mine again; he makes the controllers all sweaty!”