Man of Mystery heads back to Britain

In a test of the European Union’s new cross-border arrest warrant, which is designed to speed up extradition proceedings, Ethiopian born, Hamdi Isaac (AKA Osman Hussein etc.,) the Sheperd’s Bush tube “bomber” appears to be heading for the UK in the next 10 days.

He will face charges relating to the “bombings” on London Transport on 21st July (to which he has admitted involvement) , despite the best efforts of the glamorous court appointed Italian lawyer Maria Antonietta Sonnessa, who unsuccessfully argued that her client risked receiving an unfair trial in the UK because British public opinion had been whipped up as a result of the 7/7 bombings and failed attacks in London.

Italy’s highest appeals court, the Court of Cassation’s ruling “entirely rejected” Mr Issac’s appeal against a lower court’s order in August that he should be extradited according to the UK’s representative Paolo Iorio. The Court’s decision cannot be challenged.

Hamdi / Hussein boarded Eurostar in London, without being apprehended, and reached his brother in Milan via Paris and was tracked by the use of his mobile phone at the same time as Met. Chief Ian Blair was assuring the British public that the “bombers had not escaped abroad”.

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