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'Fifth 7/7 bomber' jailed
25/11/2005 19:36 - (SA)
London - A man who told a British newspaper that he was a fifth July 7 London bomber was jailed for four months on Friday for wasting police time.
Imran Patel, 27, pleaded guilty at Leeds magistrate's court in northern England to making a false report to a weekly newspaper that he had information relevant to the investigation into the blasts, which killed 56 people, the four presumed bombers included.
The court heard that Patel's actions had wasted 4 070 hours of police time at a cost of about £60 000.
He was arrested by anti-terrorist officers at his home in Dewsbury, south of Leeds, after the News of the World tabloid handed information over to the police.
Three of the four men identified by police as the bombers hailed from the Leeds area.
- AFP
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