TWO Walthamstow men have been found guilty of conspiring to cause mass murder as suicide bombers.

Arafat Khan and Waheed Zaman, of Walthamstow, have today been convicted along with Ibrahim Savant, of Stoke Newington, at Woolwich Crown Court.

The men were recruited in 2006 by Abdulla Ahmed Ali, also of Walthamstow, the ringleader of plot to blow up transatlantic flights.

The trio, who will be sentenced on Monday and face life imprisonment, were last year cleared of knowing the targets had been airlines.

The convictions come nearly four years after the police and secret services smashed the UK’s largest ever terrorist plot, which was based in Walthamstow.

The ringleaders developed a homemade liquid bomb which could be disguised as a soft drink.

Ali and two other members of the cell were found guilty of planning the plot after a 2009 retrial.

The court heard that "martyrdom videos" recorded by the trio proved they were willing to sacrifice their lives.

In a statement, Sue Hemming, the Crown Prosecution Service's head of counter-terrorism said: "Ibrahim Savant, Arafat Waheed Khan and Waheed Zaman were actively working alongside other men on a plot to cause death and injury on a massive scale.

"They were cleared in the previous trial of being aware of the ultimate targets of the plot, but we say that they were committed to the principle and practice of violent jihad to the point of targeting innocent people in an attempt to further their cause.

"The charges against these men were so serious that, following two previous trials where juries could not reach verdicts, the director of public prosecutions decided that the evidence must be properly tested before a jury for a third time.

"The verdicts demonstrate that the Crown Prosecution Service was right to pursue a third trial."

Ali, Tanvir Hussain, of Leyton, and Assad Sarwar, of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, were found guilty of the airline bomb plot last year.