Fiancee of London bomb plotter jailed for 3 years

THE fiancee of one of the failed July 21 suicide bombers was jailed for three years for helping him to escape by dressing as a Muslim woman in a burka.

Teenager Fardosa Abdullahi gave bomb plot ringleader Yassin Omar her mother’s black robe to help him flee London the day after the attacks in 2005.

Abdullahi, now 20, got engaged to Omar in an Islamic ceremony four days before he tried to blow up himself and fellow passengers at Warren Street Tube station.

She admitted helping him escape at an Old Bailey hearing last month but her plea could not be reported until now.

Judge Paul Worsley rejected a plea that she should be spared jail because she is now pregnant and was vulnerable at the time of the offence and had a long history of mental illness.

He said: “The message must go out that this court will not go soft on those who assist terrorists, even those who are young, vulnerable and under pressure, as you undoubtedly were.”

Her sentencing yesterday ends a series of cases in which 16 people have either been convicted of or admitted charges linked to the July 21 attacks.

CCTV footage seen at Omar’s trial showed the 6ft 2’ terrorist dressed head to toe in a burka.

The footage from Golders Green coach station also showed him carrying a white handbag. Abdullahi went there with him the day after his failed attack.

He fled to Birmingham where he was arrested five days later by armed police. He was later jailed for life with a minimum of 40 years at Woolwich Crown Court.

Abdullahi, of Finchley, north London, pleaded guilty on June 5 at the Old Bailey to a charge of assisting an offender.