CCTV shows 7/7 bombers
Date published: 14 October 2010
CCTV footage of the July 7 suicide bombers calmly planning and carrying out their mission was shown at the inquests into their victims’ deaths.
Grainy images showed the four men buying supplies, carrying out a dry-run to London and then setting out on their final journey.
Among the 52 dead was Austerlands man David Foulkes (22) who had moved to London to start a new job.
Scotland Yard launched a massive trawl of thousands of hours of CCTV images after the 2005 bombings on London’s transport network, which also left more than 700 injured.
Four days later, a police officer with a military background spotted the bombers on film, wearing large rucksacks and walking through King’s Cross station in central London.
Images of the four — Jermaine Lindsay (19), Mohammed Sidique Khan (30), Shehzad Tanweer (22) and Hasib Hussain (18) — arriving at Luton Station before boarding a train to London were also discovered.
Witnesses who saw the bombers as they made their way to London said they seemed relaxed and happy.
Khan, Tanweer and Hussain were caught on camera buying pliers and lightbulbs — apparently for use in their bomb detonators — at a B&Q store in Beeston Road, Leeds, on July 4.
And the day before the attacks, Khan and Tanweer were captured on CCTV at an Asda supermarket in Pudsey, near Leeds, buying ice packs to keep their homemade explosives cool.