Adel Yahya, no longer faces a retrial for conspiracy to murder

Adel Yahya, one of the men accused of planning the failed terror attacks on London on July 21, 2005, has been jailed for six years and nine months by at the High Court in London after pleading guilty to possessing terrorist information.

Mr. Yahya had been on trial for the first seven months of 2007 on the more serious allegation of conspiracy to murder arising out of the events of 21 July. Whilst his co-defendants Muktar Ibrahim, Yasin Omar, Hussein Osman and Ramzi Mohammed were all convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, the jury were unable to reach a verdict in relation to Mr. Yahya.

Mr. Yahya had been due to be retried on the allegation of conspiracy to murder but the prosecution offered no evidence in relation to that allegation, and a not guilty verdict in respect of that count was entered, when he pleaded guilty to a lesser offence contrary to section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000

Tim Moloney, led by Peter Thornton QC, represented Adel Yahya.

See The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,2205801,00.html

See The Times http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2813387.ece

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