Suspected failed bomber Hussain Osman will be arrested on murder conspiracy charges when he arrives back in Britain after extradition from Italy. Scotland Yard said Mr Osman, 27, would also face charges of attempted murder and alleged firearms offences. Mr Osman, also known as Hamdi Issac, is accused of trying to blow up a Tube train at Shepherd's Bush, west London. He is being flown from Rome to RAF Northolt and on Friday will appear before magistrates sitting at Belmarsh. "Officers from the MPS Extradition Unit are accompanying Osman on the flight from Italy," Scotland Yard said. Once Mr Osman's plane lands in Britain, he will be taken to a central London police station to be formally charged, it added. Ethiopian-born Mr Osman was arrested in Rome a week after the attempted bombings. He lost his appeal against extradition last week. He has been held in Rome's Rebibbia prison but on Thursday was taken to the city's Ciampino airport to be flown back to the UK. Mr Osman's Italian lawyer, Antonietta Sonnessa, appealed against him being sent back to Britain - she said he would not get a fair trial. The case is being seen as a test case for the new European Arrest Warrant, which is intended to speed up extradition in such cases.
The other three suspected bombers - Ibrahim Muktar Said, 27, Yassin Hassan Omar, 24, and Ramzi Mohamed, 23, are currently being held at Belmarsh prison in south-east London. They are charged with attempted murder and possessing explosives following alleged attempted bomb attacks on London's transport network. They and a fourth man, Manfo Kwaku Asiedu, 32, are also charged with conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to cause explosions. The charges against Mr Asiedu relate to an unexploded device found two days after the bomb attempts. All four are due before a judge at the Old Bailey in December. The failed 21 July attacks took place two weeks to the day after four suicide bombers killed 52 passengers on the London transport network.