Topic: Liquid Bombers

The retrial of the "liquid bombers" in the UK resulted in three convictions after a previous hung jury. The legal breakthrough involved a workaround to British evidence laws, allowing prosecutors to introduce emails obtained from Yahoo servers in the United States rather than using prohibited direct intercepts.

A UK jury failed to convict the alleged ringleaders of a plot to blow up airplanes with liquid explosives, finding them guilty only of conspiring to commit murder. Virgin Atlantic has called for the removal of the 100ml liquid restriction on flights following the verdict. Despite the lack of evidence for a specific aviation plot, the government intends to retry the defendants.