Former girlfriend of terrorist vows to stop freedom plans

THE former Irish girlfriend of a jailed Syrian-backed bomb plotter has vowed to halt British authorities from freeing him on parole.

An application is to be made in the House of Lords on human rights grounds to free Jordanian national Nezar Hindawi, one of the world’s most notorious terrorists.

Twenty years ago he attempted to trick his pregnant fiancée, Anne Mary Murphy, into becoming a human bomb to blow up an airliner carrying 375 passengers and crew. She lives with her daughter at a secret location in Ireland.

Ms Murphy is still haunted by the memory of how Hindawi tried to send her to her death by packing her hand luggage with Semtex plastic explosives.

But she has broken an 18-year silence to declare that she was prepared to go to London to ensure he serves his full term.

“He must rot in jail forever. If the House of Lords wants me to come and show them why then I will do it,” said Ms Murphy, now 50.

“That man is pure unadulterated evil. You are talking about someone who has never shown even a flicker of remorse or once said he was sorry.”

Hindawi’s lawyers are preparing an appeal to the House of Lords claiming the failure to grant Hindawi an independent parole board review contravenes the European Convention on Human Rights.

But, said Ms Murphy, he has no right to make such a claim. “What about the human rights of all the people on that plane he was trying to murder?” she said.