| Abdullah Shaheed Jamal | |
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| Born | Germaine Maurice Lindsay 23 September 1985 Jamaica |
| Died | 7 July 2005 (aged 19) Piccadilly Line train between King's Cross St. Pancras and Russell Square, London Borough of Camden, London |
Germaine Maurice Lindsay (23 September 1985 – 7 July 2005), also known as Abdullah Shaheed Jamal, was one of the four homegrown 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 26 other people on a train traveling on the Piccadilly line between the King's Cross St. Pancras and Russell Square tube stations.
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Lindsay was born in Jamaica and had lived in Dalton, West Yorkshire, following his arrival from Jamaica at age five, where he attended Rawthorpe Junior School and Rawthorpe High School.[2] A carpet fitter, he subsequently moved to Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire.
News reports indicate that Lindsay was a violent drug dealer in Huddersfield prior to his conversion to Islam: "He thought all white people were trash and said he was going to get them all on drugs to kill them off."[3]
Lindsay married a woman from Kinnitty, County Offaly, Ireland, Aoife Nadiyah Molloy, with whom he remained for eight days before divorcing her to marry Samantha Lewthwaite. Lewthwaite, a native of Aylesbury, had converted to Islam at age 15. Lewthwaite lived with him and gave birth to their second child two months after his death. Lindsay also persuaded his mother, Mary McLeod, the daughter of an Evangelical Christian, to convert to Islam.[4] He engaged in "work experience" with a local council, which he is said to have enjoyed, although the pay was poor.[5]
His 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.[4] She later went on record stating she abhorred the attacks and that her husband's mind had been poisoned by radicals.[6] Lindsay was reportedly close to Abdullah el-Faisal, a controversial imam convicted of attempting to incite sectarian murders in 2003.[7][8]
Lindsay detonated his bomb, killing 26 people, on a train traveling between King's Cross St. Pancras and Russell Square stations[9] 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.
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.[10] Since then it was revealed in the local press that his wife and son are living under police protection and would not be returning home. In December 2005, two 17-year-olds were charged with attempted arson for the attack.
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