THE trial of a Bolton terrorism suspect accused of having a poison gas recipe and bomb-making instructions could be moved from London to Manchester.

Asim Kauser, aged 25, was due to appear at the Old Bailey, but his case did not go ahead because officials are deciding whether proceedings should be moved to Manchester Crown Court.

Kauser was arrested at his home in Bardon Close, Halliwell, on June 6.

He is charged with four offences under the Terrorism Act relating to material found on a computer pen drive.

The unmarried British national, whose family came from Pakistan, is accused of having “various instructions in how to make an improvised explosive device”.

He is also accused with having a recipe to make the deadly poison ricin, City of Westminster Magistrates Court heard at an earlier hearing. Kauser has entered no plea to charges of possession of records of information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism.

The alleged offences took place between January, 2009 and June this year.

Kauser’s neighbours said they were shocked when officers from the North West Counter Terrorism Unit swooped on his house earlier this year.

A date has not yet been set for Kauser’s next hearing.