After detonating bomb on 21/7 in London he fled disguised in mother-in-laws burqa

Yassin Omar, one of the six alleged terrorists being tried in a court for plotting to blow off an underground train on 21/7 2005 in London, has reportedly revealed before the court that soon after planting the bomb he fled wearing a burqa along with his wife.

London, May 5 : Yassin Omar, one of the six alleged terrorists being tried in a court for plotting to blow off an underground train on 21/7 2005 in London, has reportedly revealed before the court that soon after planting the bomb he fled wearing a burqa along with his wife.

Omar said he escaped 24 hours after he set off a rucksack device, as he was terrified of the fact that the police would shoot him.

Testify before the court for a second day, Omar said that he took one of his mother-in-law's black burkas because she "had lots of them". She used to sell them so there was one which was big enough to fit his 6ft 2in frame, Woolwich Crown Court, South London, heard, the Daily Mail quoted him as saying.

According to the paper, he smiled as he was shown CCTV footage of himself in the burka and holding a handbag, walking to get a coach with his wife. "That's me.If I didn't disguise myself or go into hiding they would have shot me," he said with a grin on his face.

CCTV images showed him leaving the train at Warren Street, before jumping the barriers and running away. Omar boarded a bus briefly before heading off on foot and asking two Muslim women for help, the court heard.

"I was hot, panicky and running away from the sirens," he said and added that he had told his wife they had to go away because his face would be on TV.

He further revealed that after spending the night of 21/7 at a hotel, they took a bus to Birmingham the next evening from Golders Green.

He feared the same fate as Jean Charles de Menezes, the Brazilian shot and killed on the Tube by police who wrongly believed he was a suicide bomber.

Omar, from New Southgate, North London, was arrested by armed specialists from West Midlands Police who broke into his safe house on July 27.

He was woken by "something like a robot making a lot of noise", he said, and was found standing in the bath, fully clothed and wearing a rucksack.

"I thought if I was wearing a bag they would have to think twice and ask what I had got in there - then I would have had a chance to explain," he added.

ANI