PlayNo verdict in '7/7 helpers' case
Published: Friday, 1 August 2008, 3:28PM
The jury in the trial of three men accused of helping the July 7 suicide bombers has failed to reach verdicts.
The jury at Kingston Crown Court had been out since July 14 having heard Waheed Ali, Sadeer Saleem and Mohammed Shakil had assisted the bombers by carrying out a two-day reconnaissance mission in London
Previously, the judge, Mr Justice Gross, said he would accept majority verdicts in the case.
Ali, Saleem and Shakil visited the London Eye, the Natural History Museum and the London Aquarium while allegedly pinpointing potential targets during the trip seven months before the 2005 atrocity, the court had heard.
The trio, from Beeston, Leeds, were charged with conspiring with the four bombers and others unknown to cause explosions between November 17, 2004 and July 8, 2005.
Suicide bombers Mohammed Siddique Khan, Shezhad Tanweer, Hasib Hussain and Jermaine Lindsay killed 52 people and injured up to a thousand more when they detonated rucksack devices packed with explosives on three Tube trains and a bus.
The trial had heard how Ali, 25, Saleem, 28, and Shakil, 32, travelled from Leeds to London with Hussain on December 16 2004. They met up with Lindsay in the capital.
The three defendants had admitted making the visit but claimed it was an entirely innocent "social outing" and the purpose was for Ali to see his sister.
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