Wife of failed suicide bomber gets 15 years

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”.

Muslim convert Yeshi Girma, 32, knew of his plot to kill innocent passengers on London’s Tube on July 21, 2005 and could have stopped it going ahead.

It was only the botched bomb-making of Osman and his fellow terrorists that saved a repeat of the July 7 carnage two weeks before.

Just more than half an hour after his failed attack on Shepherd’s Bush Tube station, Osman was on the phone to his wife to set in motion an escape plan.

Yeshi, the mother of Osman’s three sons, helped him flee to Brighton before he took a Eurostar to Paris and on to Rome, where he was arrested.

On Wednesday she was found guilty of having information about terrorism and failing to disclose it “without reasonable excuse”.

Judge Paul Worsley told her: “You already shared Osman’s extreme views on Islam and coordinated the escape plan for the father of your three children after he failed to achieve his sought-after place in paradise.”

Her brother Esayas Girma, 22, and sister Mulu Girma, 24, whom she enlisted to help her escape plan, were jailed for 10 years.

Yeshi and Esayas, both from Stockwell, south London, and Mulu, from Brighton, were all found guilty yesterday of assisting an offender and failing to disclose information about Osman’s involvement in the July 21 attacks.

Mulu’s boyfriend Mohamed Kabashi, 25, from Brighton, admitted assisting Osman and failing to disclose information. He was jailed for nine years.