Mr Hussain recalls seeing Tanweer’s distinctive maroon Mercedes outside
Posted in General on 21. Sep, 2010
Mr Hussain recalls seeing Tanweer’s distinctive maroon Mercedes outside. Khan would sit in the Hussains’ front room for hours with Imran and Hasib, yet never mentioned politics in the family’s presence.The Hussains have not contacted the Tanweers, but a family member saw a brother of Khan’s in Beeston. He also jogged the streets around the family home and was a keen swimmer. He had shed several stones in recent months, after becoming quite chubby, though his family did not read it as a sign of profound change.It is gradually dawning on the Hussains that the radicalised young bombers met at the family home. The two also played snooker at a number of Leeds venues, including the Northern Club on Kirkstall Road.The teenager also loved a mountain bike he bought from a friend, which now gathers dust in the cellar of the family home He would pedal across Leeds to Roundhay Park and back.
But the brothers regularly attended gyms together in nearby Beeston, where they boxed. Hasib was fond of attaching himself to cardiograph machines for treadmill work. He was the subject of minor disciplinary discussions with his teachers – relating to graffiti and not delivering homework on time, the school says.He was no match at cricket for his brother Imran – who was a Yorkshire under-14 player – and he was evidently “hopeless” at football. If I am wrong, [he] will face his reward in the next life.”Hasib was not as gregarious as Imran, 25, but certainly had brains.
He picked up GCSEs in English, literature, mathematics, science, design technology and Urdu, as well as a GNVQ in business studies. If there was a caterpillar in the garden, he would make sure it was safe I can only imagine that he was brainwashed into doing this I keep thinking that this must be some kind of mistake That it must have been someone else who did this. “If a fly came into the house, he would catch it and take it outside. Within a few hours, his bomb destroyed the No 30 bus in Tavistock Square, killing him and 13 others.It would have come as no surprise to Hussain that his father wanted him back in school soon after the Islamabad trip. Mohammed Hussain, a former foundry supervisor, holds much store in living by the rules. He frowns on smoking, for instance, and tells Imran’s wife’s Pakistani family that he would not have allowed the marriage to take place, were his son a smoker.