CCTV 'shows July 21 burka escape'

12 April 2012

Video images of one of the alleged July 21 terror plotters escaping disguised as a Muslim woman in a burka have been released.

Yassin Omar fled London in the traditional Muslim women's dress the day after he made a failed attempt to detonate a rucksack bomb on a Tube train near London's Warren Street station, Woolwich Crown Court was told.

The footage allegedly shows Omar, 26, in the black burka mingling with ordinary commuters at Digbeth coach station in Birmingham on July 22.

The head-to-toe outfit gave others at the coach station no clue that the man inside was, at the time, wanted by anti-terror police over the alleged attempt to bomb London's transport system the previous day.

Woolwich Crown Court has already heard how, earlier in the day, Omar was captured on CCTV wearing the burka at Golders Green coach station in north London.

He was eventually arrested at a house in Birmingham on Wednesday, July 27.

The July 21 trial heard on Monday how firearms officers nearly gunned Omar down when they found him in the house standing in a bath wearing what they feared was a rucksack filled with explosives.

Specialist police officers told Woolwich Crown Court how stun grenades were thrown into every room before a violent struggle ensued with the defendant.

One officer said he punched Omar - who was fully clothed - as hard as he could in the face while another repeatedly stunned him with a Taser gun.

Omar is one of six men accused of hatching an extremist Muslim plot to detonate shrapnel-packed rucksack bombs on the London transport system exactly two weeks after the July 7 terror attacks.

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