Teacher ‘backed brother’s suicide bomb attempt’

A MEMBER of the first British suicide bomb mission to Israel was encouraged to go by his sister, a court heard yesterday.

Teacher ‘backed brother’s suicide bomb attempt’

A week before Omar Sharif took part in an attack which killed three people, his teacher sister Parveen sent him an e-mail telling him to be strong, London’s Old Bailey was told.

On the day of the attack, the 27-year-old Derby man’s bomb failed to explode and he fled. His body was found in the sea off Tel Aviv 12 days later.

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