Mysterious robbery

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The registration number for a Fiat Brava apparently registered to Lindsay was entered into the Police National Computer after a suspected robbery on 27 May 2005 although, once again, Lindsay was apparently never apprehended despite the car being registered in his name to his home address:

[HUGO KEITH] On 27 May, just five weeks before, Luton police received a call from a man to the effect that there was a gunman in his flat. When armed police arrived, neither the owner of the flat, presumably the person who called, nor the gunman were there. All had fled. Then a member of the public called in to say he had seen three males, two black and one Asian, wearing balaclavas and running down the road and he saw one of them holding a handgun. They got into a car and he managed to the a [sic] note of the car registration number, and it was a Fiat, R662 DSF. Lindsay's car. The police marked on the police national computer an interest in the car and requested that it be stopped if it was sighted. They then also went to the address of the registered keeper, Lindsay's address in Aylesbury that we've seen on the map, but there was no reply. A crime report was filed and an investigation commenced. They did a silent drive-by past the address again that night, but the car wasn't seen and was not subsequently traced. They drove past again the following day, but the investigation went nowhere, I think primarily because the victim of the armed robbery, or whatever it had been, could neither be identified nor traced, and the red Fiat Brava was not seen again until it was found in the Luton car park after 7 July 2005.

Source: 11 October 2010, pm, page 5 Line 13

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Police received a 999 call from a property in Luton saying that a male was in a flat next door with a handgun.
Two black men and an Asian man were seen running from the flats with a small handgun, followed shortly afterwards by three women with a young child, one of whom allegedly screamed: “Someone’s got a gun to my baby” as they jumped into a taxi.
When the men saw the police, a witness said they took off their balaclavas and gloves and got into a Fiat Bravo.
The vehicle was registered to the bomber Jermaine Lindsay’s address in nearby Aylesbury and Thames Valley police went to the address several times over the next two days but no one was in, the inquest was told.
A check on the police national computer found that Lindsay had a previous conviction for possession of cannabis resin and importing controlled drugs.

It also found that the car had been checked on the police computer 14 times in the previous two months.
Bedfordshire police asked for a note to be made on the police national computer to stop the car if spotted but the next time it was seen was when it was found at Luton railway station with the a gun in the car as part of the investigation into the July 7 bombings.
Police launched Operation Bugle and found a taxi driver who had picked up a man and a child from the address but could not discover where they had been dropped.
CCTV from a petrol garage forecourt where they stopped on the way to the address could not be used because it was obscured by a Bedfordshire police poster in the garage window, the inquest heard.
Forensics officers were called in to check the flat but the results were never followed up.
The inquest heard the case was never formally closed but the investigating officer went on holiday and then went on a residential training course.
“It is clear that Thames Valley inquiries went nowhere and this was the best lead they had,” Hugo Keith QC for the inquest said.
The inquest also heard that the landlord of a flat used by the July 7 bombers as a bomb factory cleared it out after the bombings without calling the police.
Wajid Hussain, the landlord of a flat in Chapeltown Road in Leeds, had to give three statements to police after admitting that he had initially lied about his involvement with the bombers because he was worried about being implicated in the attacks.
He said he had met Mohammed Sidique Khan, the leader of the bombers, at the Francis Street mosque in Leeds who asked him if he had a room to rent.
He said he agreed to rent out a room above his sandwich bar to Sidique Khan’s friend who called himself Imran Mirza but was actually fellow-bomber Hasib Hussain.
According to Mr Hussain, whose statements were read to the inquest, the flats had problems with an overloading of the electricity but Hussain refused to let him into the flat, allegedly threatening him that he had a jinn [devil] inside him who might attack the landlord if he came inside.
“I believe he was threatening me,” Mr Hussain, the landlord, told police, adding that he swore at Hasib Hussain and told him that he had to pay his rent on time.
In fact he later admitted that Hussain had told him that he was boiling water on a portable stove. In fact it is thought the bombers were boiling down hydrogen peroxide to make it more concentrated.
Hasib Hussain handed in his notice and the bombers moved on to another flat in Alexandra Grove, Leeds, where they finished their bomb-making.
But Mr Hussain, the landlord, admitted that he tried to contact Hasib Hussain and Sidique Khan after the July 7 bombings and when he failed to get hold of them he broke into the flat on July 12.
“I was convinced they had something to do with the bombings but did not see anything dangerous,” he later told police, admitting that he had seen a gas mask in the room, a large TV and that the bombers had put up curtains.
He added: “It was littered with rubbish and had black bin liners on the floor. I gathered them up and threw away the rubbish.”