A WOMAN jailed for helping hide a terrorist has been revealed as a former Miss Brighton contestant.

Mulumebet Girma was jailed in 2008 for ten years for helping failed suicide bomber Hussain Osman flee after his attempt to kill Tube passengers in London on July 21 2005.

She hit the front pages yesterday after it was revealed she secured a top job at a London council in the months after her releases from prison.

She rose through housing department ranks at Southwark Council, which gave he access to restricted records.

Upon learning of her terror convictions, the local authority dismissed her and launched a review into what she had done at the council.

The Argus can today reveal that in the year she helped Osman after his failed suicide bid, she also competed in the Miss Brighton beauty pageant.

Girma, along with Osman’s wife - and her sister - Yeshi Girma, helped the terrorist in the days after the failed attack in the capital.

They picked him up and took him to her sister’s Brighton home where she treated his injuries and disposed of his clothes.

After hiding him in Brighton, where she lived, for three days they helped him escape to Rome on a Eurostar service.

In the same year, 2005, the now 33-year-old graduated in pharmaceutical and chemical sciences from the University of Brighton

The council has been criticised for the lack of due diligence in employing Girma.

A Google search brings up information about her conviction and she even has a Wikipedia page.

Osman, along with Muktar Said Ibrahim, Yassin Omar, and Ramzi Mohammed, tried to detonate rucksacks laden with explosives on three Underground trains at Shepherd’s Bush station, Oval station and Warren Street station, together with a bus in Hackney Road, killing themselves and passengers, but the bombs failed to go off.

The attempted attacks came two weeks after four suicide bombers struck in central London, killing 52 people and injuring more than 770.

They were jailed for life in July 2007 after being convicted at London’s Woolwich Crown Court of conspiracy to murder. Girma was jailed for 10 years in 2008 but this was reduced to five on appeal.