TWO Blackburn brothers who made an Al-Qaeda-style video in a public park have had their claims they were wrongly convicted thrown out by top judges today.

Abbas Niazi Iqbal, 25, was jailed for three years at Manchester Crown Court in March after he was convicted of disseminating terrorist material and preparing for acts of terrorism.

His younger brother Ilyas Niazi Iqbal, 23, was jailed for 18 months after he was found guilty of possessing information likely to be of use to terrorists.

The brothers, who lived in the Whalley Range area, called themselves the Blackburn Resistance.

The pair, now both of Chetwynd Road, Ward End, Birmingham, have both since been released due the time they spent on remand before the trail.

Today they came to Court of Appeal in a legal bid to have their convictions overturned.

But three senior judges took less than an a hour to dismiss all their arguments and uphold their convictions as 'safe'.

When police raided their then home in Percival Street, Blackburn, they found a stockpile of knives and machetes as well as balaclavas and a poster of Osama Bin Laden.

They also uncovered a dossier of military information put together by Ilyas.

Videos of extremists carrying out beheadings had been downloaded and watched on a computer at the house.