What Boston bomber looks like now

Raw footage of the finish line at the Boston Marathon captures the bombings. Vision slowed. Courtesy BBC

Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sketched at a pre trial hearing in December last year. Picture: AP / Jane Flavell Collins Source: AP

THE trial of the only surviving suspect in the Boston bombings begins in the United States today, 20 months after the attack that turned the city's annual marathon into a scene of carnage.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is facing 12 charges — including the use of a weapon of mass destruction resulting in death. If convicted he could be given the death penalty.

It comes just two weeks after the first images of the accused emerged, 17 months since he was last seen in public, chained by his legs and hands, sporting a beard with a bushy head of hair and wearing the token orange prison jumpsuit.

The 21-year-old was escorted by US marshals carrying automatic weapons on December 18 after he appeared at a hearing in a Boston Federal Court.

He had not been seen in public since his arraignment back in July, 2013.

Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is transferred between vehicles following his hearing in federal court Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014, in Boston. Picture: WHDH-TV Boston Source: AP

US marshals keep a tight grip on Tsarnaev. Source: Supplied

Tsarnaev is escorted by a group of US federal marshals. Source: Supplied

Prior to the footage, Tsarnaev had not been seen in public for 17 months. Source: Supplied

It was the last hearing he will attend before his trial today, where, if guilty, it will be decided if he should be put to death.

The footage emerged during his transfer to Fort Devens, a federal prison medical facility approximately 64 kilometres away from where he and his brother allegedly planted two bombs that killed three and injured hundreds in the worst act of terror on US soil since the September 11 attacks in 2001.

Tsarnaev has been held at the prison medical facility at Fort Devens, Massachusetts. Source: Supplied

The prison is used for men who need "long-term care". Source: Supplied

The prison is located aprox 64km from where he allegedly planted bombs. Source: Supplied

Aerial footage shows Tsarnaev walking into Fort Devens prison. Source: Supplied

The world has heard little perspective from Tsarnaev since his arrest and subsequent charge.

At his December 18 hearing, he said few words.

When asked by the judge if he was satisfied his "lawyers have been acting in your best interest", he said, "very much".

"Have your lawyers ... regularly communicated with you about events in the case so that you feel you've been kept up to date as to what is proceeding in the case," the judge asked.

"Yes sir," he replied.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is depicted sitting in federal court in Boston on Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014, for a final hearing before his trial begins in January. Picture: Jane Flavell Collins Source: AP

Tsarnaev, a young Muslim of Chechen origin, must be present in federal court in Boston for the beginning of the trial process.

Two bombs placed near the end of the Boston marathon and detonated 12 seconds apart, allegedly by Tsarnaev and his brother, killed three people and wounded 264 on April 15, 2013.

The trial is expected to last at least three months.

Some victims of the attack have vowed to attend every day of the trial, others are more reluctant to relive the scarring experience.

Some people have refused to even look at Tsarnaev, who arrived to the Boston area with his family eight years ago and was naturalised a US citizen in 2012.

Tsarnaev will appear alone at trial. His older brother Tamerlan, 26, was killed in a confrontation with police days after the attacks. It may be Tamerlan who the defence tries to paint as the mastermind behind the plot.

After a manhunt that included thousands of police, Dzhokhar was arrested a few hours after the death of his brother. He was seriously injured and hiding in a boat in a Boston suburb.

Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev faces 12 charges including use of a weapon of mass destruction. Picture: AP Photo / FBI Source: AP

THE JURY SELECTION

The jury selection that begins today is expected to last at least two weeks and 1,200 people have been summoned for the process.

Groups of about 250 people will be brought in beginning Monday and ending Wednesday to answer questions about trial issues. Attorneys will then study these answers to begin the process of elimination that will result in a group of 12 jurors and six alternates.

The prosecution will be one of the most important for the government since the Timothy McVeigh bombing trial in 1997 that ended in a death sentence.

Tsarnaev will be defended by a team of five lawyers, including Judy Clarke, an expert in death penalty cases who has helped spare her clients from capital punishment numerous times.

Tsarnaev has been held in near-solitary confinement in federal prison outside of Boston. He has made two appearances since his arrest.

David Bruck AND July Clarke, part of the defence team for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Source: AP

Watertown, Massachusetts police chief Ed Deveau walks past protesters as he leaves federal court in Boston after the final hearing for Tsarnaev last month. Picture: Elise Amendola Source: AP

Tsarnaev appeared in a courtroom in 2013 to plead not guilty to the 30 charges against him, including using a weapon of mass destruction. He also appeared last month for a pre-trial hearing.

According to the indictment, the government believes the Tsarnaev brothers acted alone. The government portrays them as radicalized lone wolves, who learned how to make bombs from an Al-Qaeda publication online.

A message inside the boat where Tsarnaev was found after the manhunt offers a glimpse into the possible motive behind the crime: "The US government is killing our innocent civilians ... We Muslims are one body ... Stop killing our innocent people and we will stop," it

WHAT JURORS ARE EXPECTED TO HEAR

Tsarnaev will be tried in front of a jury in the federal US District Court in Boston, starting Monday night AEST, in what is likely to be the most closely watched potential death penalty case since Timothy McVeigh was executed for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

Prosecutors are expected to focus on evidence including a hand-scrawled confession and a video they say shows Tsarnaev placing a backpack near an 8-year-old boy who was killed.

Tsarnaev's lawyers have not revealed their defence strategy but in court filings have focused on the theory that his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev pressured Dzhokhar Tsarnaev into participating in the bombings.

Rolling Stone magazine famously and controversially put accused Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on the cover of its August 2013 edition. Source: AP

They have previously raised the notion that Dzhokhar faced a difficult childhood in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan and that he was radicalised at the hands of an influential sibling.

The charges Tsarnaev is facing include conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction, use of a weapon of mass destruction resulting in death, bombing a place of public use, carjacking and possession and use of a firearm.

The aftermath: paramedics rush to treat victims of the Boston bombings. Picture: AP Photo / Charles Krupa Source: AP

TERROR ON BOSTON STREETS

The attack happened near the marathon's finish line at Copley Square on April 15 2013, shattering windows and barricades and sending smoke billowing into the air.

Police reported two homemade pressure-cooker bombs packed with explosives, nails and other shrapnel exploded 12 seconds and no more than 100m apart on a stretch of the marathon course lined with spectators watching athletes complete the gruelling 42-kilometre race.

Hospitals were inundated with athletes and spectators who had lost limbs or been hit with shrapnel from the blasts.

A thermal image taken by US Police Air Wing shows Dzhokhar Tsarnaev allegedly hiding in a boat on April 19, 2013. Source: AFP

The Federal Bureau of Investigation took over the investigation immediately after the attack, launching one of the largest scale manhunts in US history.

Police released CCTV images and video three days after the bombings and two suspects — Chechen brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev — were identified later that day.

The manhunt for the pair began and ended in the city of Watertown, Massachusetts where Tamerlan was shot several times and died from injuries after a firefight with police. A policeman was also shot and killed in the exchange.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was arrested after being found hiding in a boat in a Watertown residents' yard.

SWAT teams close in on the Tsarnaev brothers on April 19, 2013. Picture: Mario Tama/Getty Images Source: AFP

FBI WARNED ON TSARNAEV IN 2011

Tamerlan Tsarnaev first appeared on the FBI's radar in March 2011, when Russian intelligence identified him as a follower of radical Islam. The FBI closed the investigation less than four months later.

In late 2011, US officials added the Tsarnaevs' mother to a federal terrorism database again following contact from Russia.

Rolling Stone magazine caused a stir when it put Dzhokhar's face on the cover of it's August 2013 edition with the words "How a popular, promising student was failed by his family, fell into radical Islam and became a monster".

The family has remained in the headlines since Boston, with a sister of the bombing suspects arrested in New York in August last year on suspicion of making a bomb threat against a woman who previously had a romantic relationship with her boyfriend.

Ailina Tsarnaeva, who lives in North Bergen, New Jersey, made the threat against an upper Manhattan woman via telephone, police said.

She turned herself in at a Manhattan police precinct, and police charged her with aggravated harassment.

One of the lucky ones: a Boston runner reacts after the bombings. Picture: Alex Trautwig / Getty Images Source: Getty Images

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