“I am using bomb-making chemicals to treat my warts and bad teeth” – Convicted terrorist as he is cleared by court (PICTURED)

Nicholas Roddis

A convicted terrorist was cleared of plotting another atrocity today after claiming he was using bomb-making chemicals to treat his warts and bad teeth.

Nicholas Roddis, 27, was jailed for seven years in 2008 after he sparked a security alert by leaving a hoax bomb on the bus.

He was released in January 2011 and despite being banned from using the internet, used false identities to research explosives at public libraries, a court heard.

Prosecutors said Roddis, of Maltby, Rotherham, was planning to use explosives to derail a train but he said he was simply preparing an appeal against his earlier conviction.

But an Old Bailey jury found him not guilty of engaging in acts for the preparation of terrorism after less than a day’s deliberation.

Roddis wept as he thanked the jury.

He has already been recalled to prison to serve the balance of his previous sentence and is not due for release until January next year.

During a three-week trial he claimed he was simply an internet geek who had been caught out by draconian anti-terrorism laws.

Roddis donned a false beard and moustache when he planted the fake bomb on the bus in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, in 2007 and was later convicted of two terrorism offences.

Within the device was a piece of paper with Arabic writing which stated: ‘There is no God but Allah and Mohammed is the messenger of Allah.

‘God is great, God is great, God is great.’

It also stated ‘Britain must be punished’ and was signed off ‘Al Qaeda organisation of Iraq’.

The bomb was covered in brown paper and contained a cheap alarm clock, wires and nails.

He has always admitted the bomb hoax, claiming he did it for ‘a laugh’.

When police searched his bedroom at his mother’s home they came across bomb-making recipes, along with hydrogen peroxide and acetone, some of the ingredients used in the July 7 bombs.

But Roddis claimed he had bought the chemicals after he was mocked about his warts, verrucas and yellow teeth by colleagues at call centre firm Loans Assured.

Roddis told the trial at the Old Bailey, pictured, that bomb-making materials found in his room were used to treat warts and verrucas on his fingers and to try and whiten his 'yellow' teethRoddis told the trial at the Old Bailey, pictured, that bomb-making materials found in his room were used to treat warts and verrucas on his fingers and to try and whiten his ‘yellow’ teeth

‘People at work commented about them,’ he said.

‘They said they were contagious and didn’t want to touch my keyboard. Nobody else would use it if I touched it.

‘I was going to the doctors for about three years, taking treatment for them, and nothing would remove them.

‘I got to the point where I wanted to cut my fingers off.

‘I wanted to try lots of different methods to get rid of them.’

He purchased three small bottles of acetone from a chemist and cracked one open before submerging his little finger in it, he told the court.

He said he had kept doing it every day for around three months but if had no effect.

Roddis also claimed to have used hydrogen peroxide to try and whiten his ‘yellow’ teeth.

He said it had produced a ‘bubbling sensation’ in his mouth, but was otherwise similarly ineffective.

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