21/7 suspect 'considers guilty plea'
The six suspects all deny conspiracy to murder
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Monday, 11, Jun 2007 07:42
One of the suspected July 21st bombers considered entering a guilty plea while in prison, Woolwich crown court heard today.
Belmarsh prison guard Ben Murray said Hussain Osman, 28, of no fixed address, claimed he had been "bullied" into making and distributing intended "bombs" by his alleged fellow conspirators.
Mr Osman, the so-called 'Shepherd's Bush bomber', denies conspiracy to cause murder. So do his five fellow suspects, Mr Ibrahim, Yassin Omar, 26, from New Southgate, north London; Manfo Kwaku Asiedu, 33, of no fixed address; Ramzi Mohammed, 25, from north Kensington in west London; and Adel Yahya, 24, of High Road, Tottenham, north London.
But Mr Murray said: "Osman said to me that he wanted to see someone about giving evidence against his co-defendants or going QE [Queen's evidence, in which a defendant gives evidence for the prosecution]."
Mr Murray told the court Mr Osman told him that fellow suspect Muktar Said Ibrahim, 28, from Stoke Newington, north London, was the "brains behind the bombs and trying to destroy parts of London".
Mr Osman had also said, to another officer, that he "was going to go guilty".
The trial continues.