Court views film of July 21 arrests

12 April 2012

Dramatic footage of the moment two alleged July 21 suicide bombers were arrested by armed police has been shown in court.

Wearing only their underpants, Muktar Said Ibrahim and Ramzi Mohammed emerged onto the balcony of a seventh-floor west London flat with their hands above their heads.

Police had earlier blown the front door off its hinges and thrown CS gas canisters through windows to try and make them come out, Woolwich Crown Court was told.

Firearms officers wearing helmets and flack jackets could be seen filing along the balcony while smoke billowed out of the property before the men came out.

The nine-woman, three-man jury was shown a four-minute film of the two-and-a-half hour armed police operation at Mohammed's Delgarno Gardens flat on the morning of July 29, 2005.

After receiving intelligence, firearms officers were deployed to the flat at 11.05am, the court heard. At 12.10pm the door was blown off.

At 12.37pm and 12.45pm gas canisters were thrown into the front of the building. At 1.34pm gas was thrown into the back of the flat. At 1.37pm alleged Number 26 bus bomber Ibrahim emerged followed by Mohammed, the alleged Oval bomber. Both were later arrested.

Six men are accused of plotting to carry out a series of murderous explosions on the London transport system using homemade hydrogen peroxide and chapatti flour rucksack devices.

They are Yassin Omar, 26, of New Southgate, north London; Hussain Osman, 28, formally of no fixed address; Ibrahim, 29, of Stoke Newington, north London; Manfo Kwaku Asiedu, 33, of no fixed address; Mohammed, 25, of North Kensington, west London; and Adel Yahya, 24, of High Road, Tottenham, north London.

They all deny charges of conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to cause explosions likely to endanger life.

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