<p><a href="https://truecrimeawards.co.uk/truecrimeawards2026/en/page/listenerschoice" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">VOTE FOR US IN THE TRUE CRIME AWARDS 2026!</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">*Warning: this episode contains descriptions of terrorist mass-casualty events, and torture *</a></p><p> </p><p>NOTE: This is Part 2 of a double episode. Please make sure you have listened to Part 1 before proceeding.</p><p> </p><p>---</p><p>These two episodes are dedicated to the memory of Dr Janet Cotterill (1968-2022) who contributed significantly to this case and to forensic linguistics more generally.  Her obituary can be found here <a href="https://iafll.org/2022/11/11/remembering-dr-janet-cotterill-1968-2022/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://iafll.org/2022/11/11/remembering-dr-janet-cotterill-1968-2022/</a></p><p>---</p><p> </p><p>August 2004. Dhiren Barot, a high-value terrorist, has been arrested in London, and police need to charge or release him within four days. To charge Barot, the police needed to prove to a criminal standard that he had indeed written <em>the Gas Limos project</em>, a document that contained the plot to attack underground carparks of landmark tourist destinations across London with multiple limousines filled with gas cylinders containing explosive gases.</p><p> </p><p>In this second part we are joined by Professor Jessica Woodhams from the University of Birmingham who, alongside Tim Grant, Janet Cotterill, and Janet’s PhD student, was rushed to New Scotland Yard in the summer of 2004 to carry out an analysis of <em>The Gas Limos project.</em></p><p> </p><p>For a list of our sources and more information about this case, please visit <a href="https://www.aston.ac.uk/writing-wrongs" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.aston.ac.uk/writing-wrongs</a></p><p> </p><p>Have a question for Nicci or Tim? Email us at <a href="mailto:[email protected]" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[email protected]</a> and we may answer it during an upcoming episode!</p><p> </p><p>Check out the official AIFL blog for more forensic linguistic goodies here: <a href="https://medium.com/@AIFLblog" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://medium.com/@AIFLblog</a></p><p> </p><p>If you have been affected by any of the themes in this week’s episode, please contact one of these free sources:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan/</a> </p><p><a href="https://www.helpguide.org/find-help" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.helpguide.org/find-help</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Production</strong></p><p>Production Team: Mark Round, Jordan Robertson, Neus Alberich Buera, Karolina Placzynta</p><p>Sound: Mark Round</p><p>Visual design: George Grant</p><p>Editing: Nicci MacLeod</p><p>Additional voices: Professor Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay, George Grant, Stephany Grant, Dr Graeme Hayes,  <a href="https://the-dots.com/users/greg-fraser-mclaren-630476" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Greg Fraser McLaren</a></p><p><br /></p><p><strong>Resources</strong></p><p>Professor Tim Grant’s home page: <a href="https://research.aston.ac.uk/en/persons/tim-grant" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tim Grant - Aston Research Explorer</a></p><p> </p><p>Dr Nicci MacLeod’s home page:<strong> </strong><a href="https://research.aston.ac.uk/en/persons/nicci-macleod" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nicci MacLeod - Aston Research Explorer</a></p><p> </p><p>Professor Jessica Woodham’s home page: <a href="https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/psychology/woodhams-jessica" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Professor Jessica Woodhams - School of Psychology - University of Birmingham</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Research Resources</strong></p><p>Academic Sources</p><p>-              Andrew, C. (2012). <em>The defence of the realm: The authorized history of MI5</em>. Penguin UK.</p><p>-              Carlisle, D. (2007)  Dhiren Barot: Was He an Al Qaeda Mastermind or Merely a Hapless Plotter? <em>Studies in Conflict &amp; Terrorism</em>, 30:1057–1071 DOI: 10.1080/10576100701670979  </p><p>-              Grant, T.D. (2022) <em>The Idea of Progress in Forensic Authorship Analysis</em> CUP</p><p>-              Sean O’Neill and  Daniel McGrory, <em>The Suicide Factory: Abu Hamza and  the Finsbury Park Mosque</em>(London: Harper Perennial, 2006) </p><p> </p><p>News sources </p><p>-              Guardian 2006 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/nov/07/usa.terrorism" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/nov/07/usa.terrorism</a></p><p>-              Times of India 2006 - <a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/articleshow/2168783.cms" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/articleshow/2168783.cms</a></p><p> </p><p>Other Web sources</p><p>-              US Government 9/11 Commission Report <a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-911REPORT/pdf/GPO-911REPORT.pdf" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-911REPORT/pdf/GPO-911REPORT.pdf</a></p><p>-              House of Commons library on pretrial detention of terrorists - <a href="https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn05634/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn05634/</a></p><p><br /></p>