Woman who aided would-be Tube bomber secured job with council

 A woman who was jailed for helping a would-be Tube bomber escape secured a council job after she lied about her past.

Mulumebet Girma was imprisoned for helping failed suicide bomber Hussain Osman flee after his attempt to kill passengers on the London Underground in 2005. She helped him get to Brighton before he made his way to Rome, where he was arrested. After her release, Girma was employed by Southwark borough council in south London, The Sun reported. She even became a “poster girl” when the local authority put her on the cover of Southwark Housing News. She did not tell her employer about her criminal record and was sacked, the council said.

Girma was jailed for 10 years in 2008, which was reduced to five years on appeal. She had been found guilty of assisting an offender and failing to disclose information about Osman.

Through her solicitors, Birnberg Peirce, she disputed the council’s version of events and claimed she had disclosed her conviction. The solicitors added the conviction stemmed from a familial relationship and not for offences which required proof of terrorist motive. “She had a successful career which has now been destroyed for no purpose,” they said.