7/7 inquest verdicts set for 6 May

Coroner’s report into the bombings on London transport network expected to offer recommendations for improving security Inquest verdicts on those killed in the 7/7 bombings will be delivered on 6 May, the coroner, Lady Justice Hallett, has announced. The findings of the five months-long hearings into the deaths of the 52 victims of the attacks on tube trains and a bus in central London are expected to offer recommendations for improving security. Hallett heard evidence from 309 witnesses, including members of the security and emergency rescue services, during the hearings at the Royal Courts of Justice, as well as testimony from injured victims and their rescuers. Three bombs exploded on tube trains during the rush hour on the morning of 7 July, 2005, and one an hour later on a bus travelling through Tavistock Square. The attacks were carried out by four British-born suicide bombers of Pakistani origin, led by Mohammad Siddique Khan, a 30-year-old British Muslim from Leeds, who detonated a bomb on a train at Edgeware Road. Altogether 56 died, including the bombers themselves: seven victims on a Circle Line tube at Aldgate station in east London, six on another Circle Line train at Edgeware Road; and 26 on a Piccadilly Line train between King’s Cross and Russell Square. A further 13 died 57 minutes later on board the bus. More than 700 people were injured. The verdict will be issued on the day after the May local elections and the AV referendum on changing the voting system at general elections. 7 July London attacks UK security and terrorism London Stephen Bates guardian.co.uk

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