July 21st 'helper' jailed
Adel Yahya was originally accused of being a ringleader in the conspiracy
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Monday, 05, Nov 2007 06:03
The fifth man to be convicted in connection with the failed July 21st 2005 bombings in London has been sentenced to six years and nine months in prison.
Adel Yahya, 24, from Tottenham in north London, pleaded guilty to possession of information likely to be of use to terrorists.
He will no longer face a retrial on a conspiracy to murder charge relating to the same case, having previously been accused of being one of the ringleaders of the failed plot.
Yahya was alleged to have made inquiries about hydrogen peroxide, a substance used in the attempted bombings, but left Britain six weeks before July 21st. Instead he allegedly travelled to Yemen and then Ethiopia.
The jury which found Ramzi Mohammed, Muktar Said Ibrahim, Yassin Omar and Hussein Osman guilty of conspiracy to murder in July this year were unable to reach a verdict on Yahya and Manfo Kwaku Asiedu, 33, of no fixed address.
All the original four were sentenced to a minimum 40-year term in prison.
Yahya subsequently agreed to plead guilty but the judge said the "pack of lies" he told in the original trial meant only minimal credit could be given to the change of stance.
Mr Asiedu's trial is due to begin next week.