THE wife of failed suicide bomber Hussain Osman was jailed for 15 years yesterday for failing to tell police of his plans for “carnage and mass murder”.

Britain’s top police officer was criticised by a watchdog today for delaying the investigation into the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes.

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Ian Blair insisted he would not resign today after members of the London Assembly passed a vote of no confidence in him.

The shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes by police firearms officers was caused by “fundamental failures” in planning, a court heard today.

Dramatic CCTV footage of the moment when one of the alleged July 21 bombers tried to detonate his rucksack bomb and failed was revealed for the first time today.

The family of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes tonight welcomed the inquiry into the conduct of Britain’s most senior police chief following the fatal shooting of their relative.

Scotland Yard chief Ian Blair did not know his officers had shot an innocent man until 24 hours after Jean Charles de Menezes was killed, it emerged tonight.

“ABOUT 10.03am I saw the male in the denim jacket enter Stockwell tube station. I transmitted via my radio a request for directions as to whether (he) should be detained.

IT remains unclear whether one of the senior officers at the centre of the operation that led to the death of Jean Charles de Menezes had ordered him to be taken alive.

The shooting dead of an innocent Brazilian by anti-terror police in London was branded “shocking and terrifying” after new details of alleged police blunders emerged.

Crimes motivated by religious hatred have jumped by nearly 600% in London since the July 7 bombings.

Two men were being questioned today by detectives investigating the failed July 21 bomb attacks following raids in south London.

Armed police investigating the failed July 21 bomb attacks have arrested two men in London, Scotland Yard said tonight.

The massive British police investigation into the July 21 London bombings is now centred on 13 people being held, Scotland Yard said tonight.

A SUSPECTED would-be suicide bomber was captured in a dramatic armed raid by British police and MI5 yesterday.

Anti-terrorist police today raided two more houses in London in connection with last week’s attempted bomb attacks on the capital’s transport network.

SCOTLAND Yard yesterday named two of the men who, they believe, attempted to blow themselves up on the London transport network last week.

THE parents of the Brazilian man shot dead on a London Underground train yesterday wept as they recalled how he was trying to save enough money by working abroad to return to his homeland to become a cattle rancher.

SENIOR British police officers last night insisted there would be no change to a controversial shoot-to-kill policy after an innocent man was gunned down.

NOT surprisingly, Britain’s Muslim community is fearful of the shoot-to-kill policy that resulted in the death of an innocent Brazilian not linked to the London terror attacks.

The man shot dead by police in south London yesterday is not connected to attempted terror attacks on the capital, Scotland Yard said today.

A second man has been arrested in London in connection with the investigation into the attempted bomb attacks on the capital’s transport network, police said today.

POLICE have released images of the four suspected suicide bombers who tried to bring more death and carnage to London on Thursday.

YESTERDAY'S fatal shooting at Stockwell happened at 10am when armed plainclothes police officers shot a man they believe was an accomplice of the bombers as he tried to board a train at the underground station.

Police at London's Stockwell Tube Station appear to have used very similar tactics to those deployed against suicide bombers in the Middle East, a terrorism expert said today.

Muslim leaders called on British police today to explain why an Asian man was shot dead at Stockwell station in London this morning.

A suspected suicide bomber was shot dead on the London Underground today as he fled from the police.

Former WBO Intercontinental light-middleweight champion Anthony Farnell is backing Welsh prospect Gary Lockett to claim his old title at the MEN Arena in Manchester on Saturday night.

Londoner Richard Williams will be looking to make a statement to Britain’s other top light-middleweights when he defends his Commonwealth crown against Guyana’s Andrew Murray in Liverpool tonight.