Doctor cleared of Glasgow bomb plot works in NHS hospital after Home Office dropped bid to deport him

Dr Mohammed Asha, 28, started work in a casualty ward after the Home Office withdrew a long-standing bid to deport him.

He was acquitted of conspiracy to murder and cause explosions, but officials had wanted to kick him out of the UK on the grounds that he was still a threat to national security.

The Jordanian neurologist works at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital in Shropshire as Dr Jamil - his middle name.

He was arrested on the day of a suicide bomb attack on Glasgow Airport in 2007.

At the time, he worked for the University Hospital of North Staffordshire in Stoke-on-Trent.

Dr Asha spent a year on remand before being cleared by a jury at London's Woolwich Crown Court last year.

His solicitor said the father-of-one was determined to resume his career in the NHS.

'Mohammed Asha always said he was innocent and was not a threat to national security. Now, finally, he has been entirely vindicated,' Tayab Ali said.

'Hopefully he can now get back to his position before June 30, which was offering help and support to people in the UK by being an NHS doctor.'

But a security source told The Sun that although Dr Asha was cleared by a jury, 'serious doubts remained about his continued presence in this country'.

'That was why the Home Office wanted to deport him,' the source told the newspaper.

The hospital has confirmed that Dr Asha began working for The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust after the Government dropped its deportation application.

Trust chief executive Tom Taylor said: 'Dr Mohammed Jamil Asha is a very capable young doctor and we are very pleased that he is continuing his training in our hospitals.

'It is important to remember that he has been proven innocent and the Government had withdrawn its application for deportation before he returned to the trust last week.

'We hope everyone will judge him on the basis of his medical skills, and respect his and our wishes to let him continue his training in peace.'

Dr Asha was tried alongside British-born Iraqi doctor Bilal Abdulla, who was jailed for at least 32 years for plotting to murder hundreds of civilians in terrorist car bomb attacks on London and Glasgow.

The prosecution alleged Dr Asha was the financier and supporter of the Glasgow airport terror cell.

He admitted knowing Abdulla and Indian engineering student Kafeel Ahmed, 28, who died from burns sustained during the 2007 Glasgow attack, but he claimed they betrayed him.

The court heard that Dr Asha had given money to both Abdulla and Ahmed, and extremist material was found on the doctor's laptop. But he said he did not know the £1,300 he lent to Abdulla was to rent and buy cars and bomb-making equipment.

When Abdulla was convicted of conspiracy to cause explosions and conspiracy to murder, and Dr Asha was cleared, the two men embraced in the dock.

The case against him was due to be heard by the Special Immigration Appeals Commission in October, but was withdrawn last week.

Dr Asha hopes his family can join him again in the UK after they were forced back to Jordan upon his arrest.