Partner of London bomb plotter jailed

The partner of a man who tried to carry out a suicide bombing in London in July 2005 was jailed for 15 years on Thursday after she was convicted of not telling authorities about the plot and helping him escape.

Yeshiemebet Girma, 32, was the partner of Hussein Osman, one of four men who unsuccessfully tried to blow up three underground trains and a bus to replicate attacks a fortnight earlier in which suicide bombers killed 52 commuters.

Jailing her for 15 years on Thursday, Judge Paul Worsley told Girma: "You 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."