‘Lost MI5 fax could have stopped 7/7′: The crucial missed warning

Lucy Ballinger and David Williams
UK Daily Mail
Saturday, Aug 2, 2008

A chance to stop the 7/7 bombers may have been missed when a secret services fax to police went missing.

A damning report is expected to reveal that the MI5 document, sent to West Yorkshire police, raised suspicions about ringleader Mohammed Sidique Khan and accomplice Shehzad Tanweer.

But the information was either lost or not followed up and the opportunity to monitor the men was missed.

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Survivors of the attacks have been told the findings of the Intelligence and Security Committee are ‘devastating’ and suggest the men could have been stopped long before their bombs tore through three Tube trains and a bus.

News of the report, which has already been sent to Gordon Brown, emerged as the three-month trial of the only three people charged in connection with the 2005 attacks ended dramatically at Kingston Crown Court yesterday.

After 15 days of deliberation the jury of eight women and four men were unable to agree a verdict on a charge of conspiracy to cause an explosion. More than three years on from the atrocity, which left 52 dead and hundreds injured, and after a painstaking police investigation which has cost almost £100million, the victims are no closer to justice.

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