Ayman Ibrahim was accused of attempting to frame his ex-wife's new lover for the bombing of an IKEA store A jealous ferry worker tried to frame his ex-wife's new partner by claiming he was plotting to blow up IKEA, a court has heard. Ayman Ibrahim, who works for P&O ferries, phoned up the IKEA national call centre. He said he ran a cafe in Bristol and had overheard Russians hatching a bomb plot for the days following New Year's Eve, 2011. Police swooped on the Bristol store and two addresses in the city, but no bomb or bomb-making factory was discovered, Gloucester Crown Court heard yesterday.
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Ayman Ibrahim allegedly tried to frame his ex-wife's new lover to get him deported
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He identified Bartosz Ociepka as a suspect in a fake plan to bomb Bristol IKEA
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Police swooped on the store and two other addresses, but found nothing
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He admitted identifying Mr Ociepka to police, and showed the jury a picture of a suspect related to an attack on @placeholder which he thought resembled Mr Ociepka.