A 19-year-old, who was arrested by counter-terrorism officers for plotting an attack on the London Underground network, was today remanded in custody for three weeks by a local court.
Damon Smith is accused ofunlawfully and maliciously making or having in his possession an explosive substance with intent to endanger life or cause serious injury to property.
The student from London Metropolitan University appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court today and smiled and waved towards the public gallery.
Senior district judge Emma Arbuthnot refused bail and said Smith would be remanded in custody until his next hearing at the Old Bailey court in London on November 17.
"He has been charged following the discovery of a suspicious item on a tube train at North Greenwich Underground Station on Thursday, 20 October," a Scotland Yard statement said.
North Greenwich station in south London was shut down on October 20 after passengers spotted an unaccompanied rucksack.
It was initially treated as lost property and handed to the driver, who looked in the bag and saw it contained a homemade explosive device, at which point he raised the alarm.
The Metropolitan Police has described the device as "viable".
A second suspicious but un-viable device was discovered by detectives at the back of a garage at an address in Newton Abbot, south-west England, on Saturday, causing evacuations of nearby properties as counter-terrorism officers sealed off the street.
Smith has been charged under the UK's Explosive Substances Act 1883 with making or owning an explosive substance with intent to injure or endanger lives.
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