The Boarding School Bomber

Andrew Ibrahim,a middle-class boy of Anglo-Egyptian parentage, is a loner with a drug habit,who finds salvation of a kind when he converts to Islam and changes his name to Isa a year after the 7/7 bombings in London. However his zeal for his new-found religion leads him to attempt to blow up a shopping centre in his home town of Bristol. Following a tip-off from the local Muslim community Ibrahim is watched by the police and arrested after a raid reveals that he has explosives in his possession. In 2009 he is sentenced to an indeterminate prison term with a recommended minimum of ten years. The film tells his story via reenactment and interviews with his mother,school contemporaries and the police in addition to CCTV footage of his exploits.