Bombings inquest

BRITISH Home Secretary Theresa May has lost a legal bid to force the inquest into the 2005 London bombings to hear secret evidence behind closed doors.

Justice Heather Hallett, who is overseeing the inquests into the deaths of the 52 people who were killed in the suicide attacks, ruled earlier this month that she could not hear evidence detailing intelligence material in closed session.

She concluded that even if members of the public could be excluded, “interested parties,” such as relatives of the victims, could not.