Jurors are due to retire today in the year-long fertiliser bomb plot trial at the Old Bailey.

Seven British men - four of whom are from Crawley - were arrested following the discovery of more than half a ton of chemical fertiliser in storage in west London three years ago.

The prosecution allege they were involved in a plot to bomb targets in Britain which included the Bluewater shopping centre in Kent, the Ministry of Sound nightclub in London and to hit gas and electricity supplies.

The defendants deny there was a plot. Some say they did not know what the fertiliser was, that they were only interested in sending money and supplies to fighters in Kashmir and Afghanistan or that they were duped.

Omar Khyam, 25, his brother Shujah Mahmood, 20, Waheed Mahmood, 34, and Jawad Akbar, 23, all from Crawley, Anthony Garcia, 25, of Barkingside, east London, Nabeel Hussain, 21, of Horley, Surrey, and Salahuddin Amin, 32, of Luton, Bedfordshire, deny conspiring to cause explosions likely to endanger life between January 1, 2003 and March 31, 2004.

Khyam, Garcia and Hussain also deny a charge under the Terrorism Act of possessing 600kgs (1,300lbs) of ammonium nitrate fertiliser for terrorism.

Khyam and Shujah Mahmood further deny possessing aluminium powder for terrorism.