21 July plotter's fiancee appeals

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Fardosa Abdullahi, fiancee of 21 July bomb plotter Yassin Omar, has launched an appeal against her three-year sentence for helping him to escape.

Abdullahi, 20, gave the ringleader of the failed attack her mother's burka to help him flee while dressed as a woman.

Abdullahi has since given birth and is appealing on grounds of ill health. Her plea for a non-custodial term on the same grounds was refused at sentencing.

Omar and three others tried to bomb three Tube trains and a bus in 2005.

Abdullahi, of Finchley, north London, who admitted a charge of assisting an offender, applied for permission to challenge her sentence at a hearing before three judges at the Court of Appeal in London.

Shaved arms

Lord Justice Latham, sitting with Mr Justice Openshaw and Mr Justice Burnett, reserved their decision to a date to be fixed.

When sentencing her at the Old Bailey in July, Judge Paul Worsley rejected her plea that she should be spared jail because of her pregnancy and long history of mental illness.

At the time Judge Worsley said: "The message must go out that this court will not go soft on those who assist terrorists, even those who are young, vulnerable and under pressure, as you undoubtedly were."

CCTV footage at her fiancee's trial showed the 6ft 2in man wearing the burka. He had also shaved his arms to look feminine and was carrying a white handbag.

Abdullahi admitted helping him escape and was jailed for three years.

Omar, 26, along with Muktar Ibrahim, 29, Ramzi Mohammed, 25, and Hussain Osman, 28, were jailed for life in July last year.

Among the other accomplices who were tried and convicted were Osman's wife Yeshi Girma who knew of the plot, and five men who provided the plotters with safe houses, passports, clothing and food.

Those involved in the 21 July bomb plot were:

<ul class="bulletList"><li>Failed bombers: Muktar Ibrahim, Ramzi Mohammed, Hussain Osman, Yassin Omar. Jailed for minimum 40 years.</li><li>Fifth bomber: Manfo Asiedu. Lost his nerve and dumped bomb in woodland. Jailed for 33 years.</li><li>Adel Yahya. Jailed for six years and nine months.</li><li>Helped plotters: Wahbi Mohammed, Abdul Sherif, Siraj Ali, Muhedin Ali, Ismail Abdurahman. Jailed for between seven and 17 years.</li><li>Wives and girlfriends: Yeshi Girma, Hussain Osman's wife. Jailed for 15 years. Her brother Esayas Girma and sister Mulu Girma were jailed for 10 years. Mulu's boyfriend Mohamed Kabashi was jailed for 10 years. Fardosa Abdullahi, Yassin Omar's fiancee. Jailed for three years.</li></ul>

her sentencing judge had refused her plea to be spared jail due to her pregnancy.