Those found guilty yesterday of ‘assisting an offender and failing to disclose information’ about failed 21/7 bomber Hussain Osman were sentenced today.
The longest of the sentences handed out was to Osman’s wife, Yeshi Girma, who has been jailed for 15 years for failing to tell the police about her husband’s plot. The judge told Yeshi that “[Y]ou already shared Osman's extreme views on Islam and co-ordinated the escape plan for the father of your three children after he failed to achieve his sought-after place in paradise.”
As well as not informing police of the plot, Yeshi assisted Osman in escaping from London to Brighton after he had failed in his bid to set off a bomb at Shepherd's Bush Tube station.
It was a bad day all round for the Girma family, as Yeshi’s brother, Esayas, and her sister Mulu, were also jailed for 10 years for ‘assisting an offender and failing to disclose information’ about Osman's terroristic intentions.
Mulu's boyfriend, Mohamed Kabashi, who admitted his guilt back in February but was only sentenced today, was also jailed for nine years on the same charge.
Including the bombers themselves, this brings to a total of 14 those convicted in connection with the plot.
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