Bomb suspects 'filled lift with boxes'
Residents in a block of flats targeted by police searching for the would-be London suicide bombers saw the suspected terror suspects filling a lift with mysterious small brown cardboard boxes.
Sammy Jones, 33, who lives in Curtis House in Ladderswood Way, New Southgate, north London, said she recognised Muktar Said Ibrahim, 27, also known as Muktar Mohammed Said, as the man named by police yesterday who is believed to have targeted the number 26 bus in Hackney Road, east London, in the second wave of terror attacks last Thursday.
Ms Jones said Ibrahim had been staying at a flat on the ninth floor where she knew the long-term resident as an African man called George.
She said George had lived in the flat for about two years and had recently been joined by three other men.
“George has lived there for about two years, and recently three other men have been staying there, – the Indian-looking man who I think is the man on the bus, and two Somalian men”, she said.
“They came around last year and recently they’ve been staying at George’s place again.
“A few weeks ago George and the Indian man were filling the lift with small brown cardboard boxes. I asked George what it was, and he said: ‘Wallpaper stripper.’”
She said she thought it possible that the would-be bomber at Warren Street, named yesterday by police as Yasin Hassan Omar was one of the Somalis who had visited the apartment.
