Germaine Lindsay

Germaine Lindsay
Born	Germaine Maurice Lindsay (1985-09-23)23 September 1985 Jamaica
Died	Piccadilly line train between King's Cross St. Pancras and Russell Square, London Borough of Camden, London
Other names	Abdullah Shaheed Jamal
Partner(s)	Samantha Lewthwaite

Germaine Maurice Lindsay (23 September 1985 – 7 July 2005), also known as Abdullah Shaheed Jamal, was one of the four terrorists who detonated bombs on three trains on the London Underground and one bus in central London during the 7 July 2005 London bombings, killing 56 people (including themselves), and injuring more than 700. Lindsay detonated the bomb that killed himself and 26 other people on a train travelling on the Piccadilly line between the King's Cross St. Pancras and Russell Square tube stations.

Biography

Lindsay (second from left) alongside Mohammad Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer captured on CCTV at Luton railway station at 7:21 a.m., 7 July.

Lindsay was born in Jamaica; after emigrating from Jamaica at age five, he had lived in Dalton, West Yorkshire, where he attended Rawthorpe Junior School and Rawthorpe High School. A carpet fitter, he subsequently moved to Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire.

Recurring to religious Muslim ceremonies without legal recognition, Lindsay married a woman from Kinnitty, County Offaly, Ireland, Aoife Nadiyah Molloy, for eight days before divorcing her in order to marry Samantha Lewthwaite. Lewthwaite, a native of County Down, Northern Ireland, had converted to Islam at the age of 15 after moving to Aylesbury. Lewthwaite lived with him and gave birth to their second child two months after his death. Lindsay converted to Islam shortly after his mother, Maryam McCleod Ismaiyl, converted to the faith in 2001 and encouraged him to do the same. He worked part-time as a carpet fitter and supplemented his income by selling covers for mobile phones at a local market.

Lindsay was reportedly close to Abdullah el-Faisal, a controversial imam convicted of attempting to incite sectarian murders in 2003.

Wife

Main article: Samantha Lewthwaite

Lindsay's wife, formerly known as Samantha Lewthwaite (who took the Muslim name of Sherafiyah) denied Lindsay's involvement until authorities produced forensic evidence to confirm his identity. She later went on record stating she abhorred the attacks and that her husband's mind had been poisoned by "radicals".

Involvement in London bombings

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Lindsay detonated his bomb, killing 26 people, on a train travelling between King's Cross St. Pancras and Russell Square stations. A raid by Scotland Yard found no explosives at Lindsay's flat. Lindsay is believed to have hired one of the cars left at Luton railway station on 7 July before the bombers made their rail journey to London. Abdul Dayan, the imam of the Jamia Ghausia mosque in Aylesbury, said that Lindsay did not attend, and did not mix with the largely Pakistani Muslim community.

House arson

On 22 July police and fire services were called to Lindsay's home in Aylesbury after neighbours reported a strong smell of petrol coming from it. It was suspected to be an arson attack on the empty property. Since then it was revealed in the local press that his wife and son were living under "police protection" and would not be returning home. In December 2005, two 17-year-olds were convicted at Aylesbury Crown Court of arson in circumstances where they were reckless as to whether the life of another person would be endangered and each sentenced to 18 months youth detention with a training order.

See also

• List of notable converts to Islam

External links

• "Blue Watch relive the bomb hell inside carriage 346A" by Mark Townsend, The Observer, 9 October 2005
• Profile of Germaine Lindsay
• Profile of Radical Jamaican-born Cleric Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal al-Jamaikee published by the Jamestown Foundation in Washington, DC
• "Fourth bomber's name disclosed" (Accessed 15 July 2005) BBC News
• "Market town may hold clues to fourth suspect" (Accessed 15 July 2005) Financial Times
• Russell Square explosion