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The wife of the man who tried to bomb a London Tube station has been convicted of keeping secret his plans for "carnage and mass murder".

Yeshi Girma, 32, knew all along of Hussain Osman's plot to massacre travellers at Shepherd's Bush station on July 21, 2005.

But she did not warn police of the attack, the Old Bailey heard.

It was only because of the fact that the bomb had been put together so badly that there was not a repeat of the July 7 attacks that had rocked the capital two weeks earlier, killing 52 people.

Girma, of Stockwell, south London, was found guilty by the Old Bailey jury of having information about terrorism and "without reasonable excuse" failing to disclose it.

Just over half an hour after his failed attack on the station, Osman was on the phone to his wife to set in motion an escape plan, the court heard.

Girma, the mother of Osman's three children, helped him flee to Brighton.

He later took a Eurostar train to Paris then travelled on to Rome, where he was arrested.

The court heard that Girma knew her husband had fallen under the spell of radical Islamists.

She even allowed him to take their young son away to a training camp in Cumbria where he met four of the five other July 21 plotters.

Her own fingerprints were discovered on tapes featuring "extremist Islamic preaching" by firebrands such as Abu Hamza.

Max Hill QC, prosecuting, said: "Yeshi Girma had prior knowledge of the events of 21/7. She had some information about what the bombers intended to do on 21/7, but failed to bring this to the attention of the police."

Girma claimed in court she did not live with her husband and knew little of the plot.

Mulu Girma, 24, from Brighton, and Esayas Girma, 22, from Stockwell, Yeshi's sister and brother, were both found guilty of failing to disclose information.

Mulu's boyfriend Mohamed Kabashi, 25, from Brighton, pleaded guilty to both charges before the three-and-a-half-month trial, jurors have been told.

Kabashi's flatmates Shadi Abdelgadir, 25, and Omer Almagboul, 22, also from Brighton, were both cleared of the allegations.


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