My shoe bomb nut son, by shoe bomb nut's mum

At first glance she seems like any other frumpy middle-aged housewife meandering to the local supermarket through the winter chill. But beneath the facade of banality, Lesley Hughes hides a dark, dark secret. For she is none other than the MOTHER of fanatical shoe bomb terrorist Richard Reid.

The sensational revelation confirms that Reid, 28, was BORN after Hughes became PREGNANT after having SEX with Reid's FATHER.

The evidence further suggests that Reid had a CHILDHOOD and attended SCHOOL. Some years later he boarded an American Airlines flight from Paris to Miami and attempted to detonate a bomb hidden in his shoe. And it was THIS that allows US to run this STORY.

A neighbour, who knew Reid as a child, told The Rockall Times: "He just used to greet you with a grunt. But it was those satanic eyes — his stare just bored right through you. It sent a shiver down my spine, I can tell you. I remember mentioning to my husband that he looked like just the sort of person who would conceal explosives in his shoes and try to blow up a plane. I'm just sorry that I didn't mention it sooner."

Reid now faces trial in the US on a raft of charges relating to the incident. Allegations that he may have other RELATIVES are being investigated by the British media.