Partner Of London Bomb Plotter Found Guilty
LONDON, June 11, 2008 (Reuters) — The partner of a man who tried to carry out a suicide bombing in London in July 2005 was found guilty on Wednesday of not informing the authorities about his plans and helping him escape justice.
Yeshiemebet Girma, 32, was the partner of Hussein Osman, one of four men who unsuccessfully attempted to blow up three underground trains and a bus to replicate attacks two weeks earlier in which suicide bombers killed 52 commuters.
The July 21 attack, which British authorities said was masterminded by al Qaeda in Pakistan, only failed because the men’s bombs failed to explode.
London’s Old Bailey court was told they would have caused “carnage and mass murder” had the explosives detonated.
In the chaotic aftermath of the failed bombings, Osman fled to Rome where he was eventually arrested, deported back to Britain and jailed last July for a minimum of 40 years.
“Armed with that prior knowledge of what was going to happen, the defendant Yeshi Girma could have attempted to prevent the attacks,” prosecutor Max Hill said.
He said 30 minutes after the bombings went wrong, Osman had phoned Girma, the mother of three of his children, to help plan his escape.
She, along with her brother Esyas, 22, and sister Mulu, 23, helped him to escape to Brighton on the English south coast and then to return to London two days later.
He fled Britain ultimately for Italy on a Eurostar train on July 26, using his brother’s passport.
Prosecutors said various defendants assisted Osman in different ways, from smuggling him out of London, to giving him accommodation, tending his injuries, washing his clothes, disposing of incriminating evidence and searching on the Internet to find out the state of the police investigation.
Yeshiemebet Girma said that apart from the times Osman came to visit their children at her flat she did not know where he was. She said they had never been married, she and had never lived with Osman — despite them having three sons together.
However, she was convicted of having information about terrorism and “without reasonable excuse” failing to disclose it, and was also found guilty of assisting an offender.
Esyas and Mulu Girma were found guilty of assisting an offender and failing to disclose an act of terrorism. Mulu Girma’s boyfriend, Mohamed Kabashi has pleaded guilty to similar charges.
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Ugly little pig. You can see the spite radiate around her.
June 11th, 2008 at 8:32 am[[Yeshiemebet Girma said that apart from the times Osman came to visit their children at her flat she did not know where he was. She said they had never been married, she and had never lived with Osman — despite them having three sons together.]]
Kind of a slut bitch life for someone who bombs for allah.
Convicted in the UK? Well, shes lookig at a few years in club fed.
June 11th, 2008 at 10:49 am