Yasin Hassan Omar
| Yasin Hassan Omar | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1 January 1983 Somalia |
| Arrested | 27 July 2005 Heybarnes Road, Small Heath, Birmingham West Midlands Police |
| Citizenship | British, Somali |
| Alternate name | Yassen |
| Charge(s) | convicted for his role in the attempted 21 July attacks on London's public transport system. |
| Penalty | found guilty at Woolwich Crown Court of conspiracy to murder and sentenced to life imprisonment, with a minimum of forty years before being considered for release |
| Status | Incarcerated |
Yasin Hassan Omar (sometimes spelt Yassin) (born 1 January 1983) was convicted for his role in the attempted 21 July attacks on London's public transport system. He was found guilty of attempting to detonate a device on the London Underground Victoria line tube train between Warren Street and Oxford Circus tube stations. In August 2005 police gave his age as 24 after his arrest.
The BBC has reported that Omar was originally from Somalia and arrived in the UK as a child dependent of asylum seekers, in 1992. He was granted indefinite leave to remain in 2000.
Omar was one of four men arrested on Wednesday 27 July 2005 at 0430 BST, in a property on Heybarnes Road, in the Small Heath area of Birmingham. He was then taken to London's Paddington Green police station for questioning.
Police used a 'Taser' stun gun to detain him. This was criticised as an incredible risk by Metropolitan Police Commissioner Ian Blair, saying "If there is a bomb on that body, then the bomb is going to go off". This risk was played down by West Midlands Police, who said Sir Ian Blair did not know the full circumstances surrounding the arrest, but they still voluntarily referred the matter to the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
On 6 August 2005 he was charged with four criminal charges:
On 28 April 2006, Omar, along with his co-accused pleaded not guilty to all charges against him and was placed on trial with 5 other suspects.
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