Fiancee of bomb plot leader jailed

Teenager Fardosa Abdullahi gave bomb plot ringleader Yassin Omar her mother's long black robe to help him flee London the day after the attacks in 2005.

Abdullahi, now 20, got engaged to Omar in an Islamic ceremony four days before he tried to blow up himself with fellow passengers at Warren Street Tube station.

She admitted helping him escape at an Old Bailey hearing last month but her plea could not be reported until now.

Judge Paul Worsley rejected a plea that she should be spared jail because she is now pregnant and was vulnerable at the time of the offence and had a long history of mental illness.

He said: "The message must go out that this court will not go soft of those who assist terrorists even those who are young, vulnerable and under pressure, as you undoubtedly were."

Her sentencing brings to an end a series of cases in which 16 people have either been convicted of or admitted charges linked to the July 21 attacks.

CCTV footage seen at Omar's trial showed the 6ft 2ins terrorist dressed head to toe in a burka. To make him look more like a woman he had also shaved his arms.

The footage from Golders Green coach station also showed him carrying a white handbag. Abdullahi went there with him the day after his failed attack.

He fled to Birmingham where he was arrested five days later by armed police. He was later jailed for life with a minimum of 40 years at Woolwich Crown Court.