The fiancée of one of the leaders of the failed July 21 suicide attacks in London has been sentenced to three years in jail for helping him escape in a burka.And, yes, it did make his ass look fat...
Fardosa Abdullahi gave her fiance her mobile phone handset, provided a scarf and handbag for his disguise and accompanied him to Golders Green coach station where he fled to Birmingham dressed as a woman.
And I'm sure it made a lovely ensemble...
Yassin Omar's family persuaded her to contact police but she claimed she did not know where he was and it was not until six days after the bombings that police caught up with the bomber when they raided a house in Birmingham where he was found standing in a bath with a rucksack on his back.
Is that a rucksack on your back, or are you just glad to see me?
But Abdullahi claimed she had been pressurised by Omar and her family into the engagement, four days before the attacks, and into helping him escape.
Come here, dear, so I can show you my lovely acid collection...
Sentencing her two three years in jail, Judge Paul Worsley QC, said: "The message must go out that this court will not go soft on those who assist terrorists even those who are young, vulnerable and under pressure, as you undoubtedly were."
He sounds like the judge in Reefer Madness...
The court heard that Abdullahi suffered from severe post traumatic stress disorder after a serious assault when she was six in Somalia and had suffered from "on-going difficulties within her family and a further traumatic event at the age of 12" which led to treatment at the Royal Free Hospital in North London.
"serious assault"?, Somalia? a "traumatic event at age 12"? ... "Free Hospital"? Spare burqa?
Well since she's had such a tough life, she should have no problem doing time.
Medical reports from five different doctors concluded that she heard the "psuedo hallucinatory" voice of her attacker and that that voice had changed to Yassin Omar's voice after her engagement.
In Iran, they'd stone her to death.
Judge Worsley said there was no evidence that Abdullahi was a suicide risk and added: "I can reduce the prison sentence due to circumstances but prison it must be for anyone who assists those who want to kill and maim on a scale not to be contemplated."
Good grief
Sure. But let's cut her some slack. Right, Judgey Wudgey?