Bombing suspect innocent and loves UK – family

THE family of the second suspect questioned over the Parsons Green bombing have insisted he is innocent and “loves the UK”, according to reports.

Yahyah Farroukh, 21, and an 18-year-old man remain in custody as detectives were granted more time to question them over Friday morning’s bomb attack on a London Underground train.

The older man’s family expressed their shock after the Syrian refugee was arrested on Saturday night as he finished a shift at a fried chicken takeaway.

His brother, Hamed, told the Mailonline from Egypt that Farroukh did not mix with extremists.

He said: “He is a good guy. He works in a restaurant to make a living. He would not hurt anyone.

“My father, God bless his soul, brought us up to live decently and with high morals. Yahyah has never mingled with bad guys or militants or Daesh people.”

His sister, Safa’a, told the website: “Yahyah is innocent, we know he is. He could never hurt a fly. Why would he hurt the family that adopted him or the country that welcomed him?”

Another, unnamed, brother, living in the Noord-Brabant region in the south of the Netherlands, told Arabic Al Aan TV reporter Jenan Moussa that Farroukh came to the UK in 2013 after taking a boat over to Italy from Egypt.

She tweeted: “Brother of arrested ParsonsGreen suspect told me: ‘I’m shocked by his arrest. He’s ambitious, loves the UK, studies to be journalist.’

“Brother said: ‘I spoke Thursday or Friday over phone w/Yahya. He was normal. My brother is only a suspect. Hope he’ll be cleared soon.”’