London bombs: Cassidy inquest today
Inquests into the deaths of eight victims of last week’s terrorist attacks in London - including 22-year-old Ciaran Cassidy - will be opened today.
Mr Cassidy, an Irish passport holder who lived at Finsbury Park, was killed in the Russell Square bomb attacks on an Underground train while on his way to work last Thursday morning. An inquest will also open today into the death of an as-yet unnamed woman who also died in the blast.
Mr Cassidy's father is originally from Swalinbar in Co Cavan. He moved to London 35 years ago.
Meanwhile, a New Zealand woman thought to be travelling on an Irish passport is still missing following the attacks, while a 24-year-old Co Galway man is recovering from head and arm injuries sustained in the blasts.
Regarding to other inquests to open today, Jamie Gordon (aged 30) from Enfield in north London, and 28-year-old Philip Russell, from west London, were both killed in the Tavistock Square bus explosion.
Police said Shayanuja Parathasangary, 30, of Kensal Rise, north London, and Miriam Hyman, 31, of Barnet, are both believed to have died at the bus bomb site.
Inquests will also be held into the deaths of Shahara Islam, 20, of Plaistow, east London, and William Wise, whose details are not yet known, thought have died in the same incident.
An inquest into the death of dental technician Mihaela Otto, 46, of Mill Hill, north London, will begin tomorrow, as will that of an as-yet-unnamed man.
Ms Otto died on the Piccadilly line between King’s Cross and Russell Square.
The first inquest, for Susan Levy, 53, of Newgate Street Village, Cuffley, Hertfordshire, was opened and adjourned on Monday.
Mrs Levy, a mother-of-two, was reported to have been travelling on the Piccadilly line when the bombings took place.
