Mohammed Atif Siddique said he should not have been jailed for “thought crime” and never had the intention of using terrorist materials he had accumulated to hurt anyone.
Prosecutors confirmed the 24-year-old, who was Scotland’s first man found guilty of being an Islamist terrorist, will not face a retrial.
The Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh ruled last month that Siddique had suffered a miscarriage of justice after the judge in his original trial misdirected the jury.
Three senior judges today formally overturned his most serious conviction, which accounted for six years of the eight-year sentence he was handed in October 2007.
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