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Jury consider final 21/7 verdicts 21/7 'failings could be repeated'
(about 5 hours later)
Jurors in the 21 July bombings trial will resume their deliberations regarding two defendants on Tuesday. "Systemic" failings allowed the ringleader of the 21 July bomb plotters to slip through the police's net, the shadow home secretary has said.
Muktar Ibrahim, 29, Yassin Omar, 26, Ramzi Mohammed, 25, and Hussain Osman, 28, were convicted of plotting to bomb London's transport network in 2005. The failure to track Muktar Ibrahim could happen again, David Davis warned.
The two other alleged conspirators awaiting a verdict are Manfo Kwaku Asiedu, 34, and Adel Yahya, 24. Ibrahim, 29, Yassin Omar, 26, Ramzi Mohammed, 25, and Hussain Osman, 28, were convicted on Monday of plotting to bomb transport in London in 2005.
Pressure is growing on the police to explain why they failed to track Ibrahim, the leader of the gang. Jurors are still considering verdicts on Manfo Kwaku Asiedu, 34, and Adel Yahya, 24, who deny all charges.
He was allowed to leave the UK to go to a jihadi training camp in Pakistan, despite having been charged with threatening behaviour, related to the distribution of extremist material. 'Porous borders'
Conservative MP Patrick Mercer has called for an inquiry into the matter. The Conservatives have called for a public inquiry to examine why Ibrahim was allowed to leave the UK to go to a jihadi training camp in Pakistan, despite having been charged with threatening behaviour, related to the distribution of extremist material.
He said: "How a man who can have a criminal record, can have criminal charges pending against him for radical activity inside this country, how he can be allowed to go out of the country and then come back into the country without being checked, stopped properly, well that suggests to me that things are not going right in our intelligence infrastructure." Mr Davis told the BBC's Today programme: "There is a systemic problem.
But the Metropolitan Police said Ibrahim was on bail and as he was facing a charge under the Public Order Act, he would not have featured in any immigration database. "It's partly a question of volume of suspects. It's partly a question of volume of people crossing the border.
The bomb plotters had tried to detonate rucksacks laden with explosives on the Tube and a bus, killing themselves and passengers. Referring to the former Metropolitan Police Commissioner, he added: "John Stevens used to talk about our porous borders. This is most startling example I have ever seen."
But the bombs failed to go off sparing the city a repeat of the horrors of the 7/7 attacks, two weeks earlier.
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The events of 21 July followed a fortnight of apprehension for Londoners and a period of high alert for emergency services.
Widespread chaos and panic were brought to the capital, with the London transport network brought to a standstill.
The jury heard the four defendants claimed the bombs covered in shrapnel were fakes, and their actions had been intended as a protest against the war in Iraq.
The failure of those bombs to explode owed nothing to the intention of these defendants, rather it was simply the good fortune of the travelling public that day that they were spared Nigel Sweeney QC
After a six-month trial, the jury unanimously found Ibrahim, Omar, Mohammed and Osman guilty of conspiracy to murder.
The judge, Mr Justice Fulford QC, has said he would accept a majority verdict of 10 to 2 in the case of Mr Asiedu and Mr Yahya.
The guilty four, who were all born in East Africa and came to the UK in the 1990s, stocked up on large quantities of hydrogen peroxide from hairdressing suppliers, ahead of 21 July 2005.
Omar's eighth-floor flat in New Southgate, north London, was turned into a bomb factory.
CCTV AND THE INVESTIGATION 28,000 items of CCTV gathered7,500 items viewed18,000 man-hours of viewingSeven hours of crucial CCTV used in evidenceCCTV AND THE INVESTIGATION 28,000 items of CCTV gathered7,500 items viewed18,000 man-hours of viewingSeven hours of crucial CCTV used in evidence
The devices - to be carried in rucksacks - were made of chapati flour and a similar hydrogen peroxide mixture used by the men behind the 7 July attacks in which 52 people died. BBC home affairs correspondent Andy Tighe said that the police and other authorities have argued that there was nothing in Ibrahim's behaviour to suggest what he was going to do, and that procedures have since been tightened.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman has defended the handling of Ibrahim's case, saying he was on bail and not a wanted man when he left the UK. He was facing a minor charge under the Public Order Act which would not feature on the database for immigration checks, he said.
The bomb plotters had tried to detonate rucksacks laden with explosives on the Tube and a bus. But the bombs failed to go off, sparing the city a repeat of the horrors of the 7/7 attacks, two weeks earlier.
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The four defendants claimed that the bombs covered in shrapnel were fakes, and their actions had been intended as a protest against the war in Iraq.
However, after a six-month trial, the jury unanimously found Ibrahim, Omar, Mohammed and Osman guilty of conspiracy to murder.
The judge, Mr Justice Fulford, has said he would accept a majority verdict of 10 to 2 in the case of Mr Asiedu and Mr Yahya.
The devices which the guilty four all carried in rucksacks were made of chapati flour and a similar hydrogen peroxide mixture to that used by the men behind the 7 July attacks in which 52 people died.
Mohammed targeted a train at Oval station in south London, Omar was on board a train at Warren Street in central London and Osman travelled on a Hammersmith and City line service to Shepherd's Bush in west London.Mohammed targeted a train at Oval station in south London, Omar was on board a train at Warren Street in central London and Osman travelled on a Hammersmith and City line service to Shepherd's Bush in west London.
Ibrahim, the prime mover in the conspiracy, boarded a bus in Shoreditch, east London. Ibrahim boarded a bus in Shoreditch, east London.
The jury heard that had the suicide bombs detonated properly, dozens of people would have been killed.The jury heard that had the suicide bombs detonated properly, dozens of people would have been killed.
Jihadi training THE FOUR 21/7 ATTACKS 1230: Ramzi Mohammed - Tube at Oval station1240: Yassin Omar - Tube at Warren Street station1240: Hussain Osman - Tube between Latimer Road and Shepherd's Bush1300: Muktar Said Ibrahim - Bus in Shoreditch
The attacks, and the subsequent escape of the four guilty men, sparked the UK's largest ever manhunt.The attacks, and the subsequent escape of the four guilty men, sparked the UK's largest ever manhunt.
Their movements were captured on thousands of hours of CCTV film, with seven hours worth proving to be crucial evidence.Their movements were captured on thousands of hours of CCTV film, with seven hours worth proving to be crucial evidence.
One of the plotters, Mohammed, left a suicide note intended for his girlfriend and their two young children urging them to "rejoice in happiness". Ibrahim and Mohammed were captured a week later after armed police surrounded a flat in west London.
He and Ibrahim were captured a week later after armed police surrounded a flat in west London.
THE FOUR 21/7 ATTACKS 1230: Ramzi Mohammed - Tube at Oval station1240: Yassin Omar - Tube at Warren Street station1240: Hussain Osman - Tube between Latimer Road and Shepherd's Bush1300: Muktar Said Ibrahim - Bus in Shoreditch
Omar was arrested in Birmingham after travelling there disguised as a woman in a burka, while Osman was detained in Rome and extradited back to Britain.Omar was arrested in Birmingham after travelling there disguised as a woman in a burka, while Osman was detained in Rome and extradited back to Britain.
But in their efforts to track down those behind the attempts, the police mistook an innocent man for one of the suspects.
Jean Charles de Menezes, an electrician from Brazil, was shot dead at Stockwell Tube station a day after the failed attacks.
It later emerged that the defendants had been photographed by police surveillance officers while on a 2004 camping trip in the Lake District.It later emerged that the defendants had been photographed by police surveillance officers while on a 2004 camping trip in the Lake District.