Nail Bomb Butcher David Copeland Converts to Islam in Prison

David Copeland, a London Underground engineer sentenced to life in prison for a series of attacks that killed three people and injured 140 in England in 1999, has converted to Islam in an attempt to find forgiveness and “have a second chance”, according to the British press. Copeland became infamous for the three explosions with nail bombs homemade in Brixton, in South London, on Brick Lane, in the East End; and at The Admiral Duncan pub in the West End of Soho, where three people died, including a pregnant woman.

There were thirteen days of horror and fear in the country until he was captured. On the day of the last attack, Copeland was arrested in his house in Hampshire and he confessed that he was the perpetrator of the attacks. Agents discovered a covered room with nazi flags and newspaper clippings about explosions. Later, the culprit would tell the police that he wanted the attacks to “set the country on fire and promote a race war.”