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image captionSam Parsa was handed a hospital order without limit of time
A man who planted an incendiary device in a diplomatic car outside the Iranian embassy has been detained indefinitely.
Iranian dissident Sam Parsa, 60, pushed a bottle of flammable liquid into the vehicle s exhaust pipe near Hyde Park in central London on 5 September 2018.
The Old Bailey heard it was only pure chance that it had not gone off.
On Thursday, He was made subject to a hospital order without limit of time, having been found guilty of attempted arson with intent to endanger life.
At his trial last December, the jury heard Parsa, from Tottenham, had planned for the car to be set on fire when the engine was started.
Sam Parsa, pictured, was sentenced at the Old Bailey this week. Credit: Met Police A man who placed a bottle of flammable liquid in the exhaust pipe of an Iranian diplomatic vehicle has been sentenced under the Mental Health Act. Sam Parsa put the bottle containing a rag soaked in a mix of petrol and diesel into the exhaust of the unattended vehicle in Knightsbridge in September 2018. The bottle was later spotted and removed after a member of the public alerted police officers. Officers from the counter terrorism command led the investigation and through DNA, mobile phone data and CCTV analysis, identified 60-year-old Parsa, of High Road, Tottenham, as the culprit and showed that he was in the area of the Iranian Embassy on the date and time of the offence.
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