A Sussex man has admitted helping July 21 bomber Hussain Osman evade the police in the aftermath of the botched 2005 attacks.

Mohamed Kabashi, 25, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to failing to disclose information about his friend and assisting an offender.

Kabashi, of St Mary Magdalene Street in Brighton, was charged in August 2005 as police traced those suspected of helping the bomber remain on the run.

Osman was jailed for life last year after his home-made bomb failed to detonate on a Tube train approaching Shepherd's Bush in west London.

He fled to Brighton where he stayed for a few days before travelling to Rome on the Eurostar.

He was later traced by mobile phone calls and extradited.

The failed terror attacks took place on three London Underground trains at Shepherd's Bush station, Oval station, Warren Street station and on a bus in Hackney Road.

The attacks were attempted two weeks after four British Islamists killed 52 people in a series of suicide bombings on three underground trains and a bus in the capital.

Four men - Muktah Said Ibrahim, Yassin Hassan Omar, Ramzi Mohammed and Hussein Osman - attempted to detonate hydrogen peroxide-based bombs.

But the group made mistakes when calculating the ratios of the deadly ingredients and the devices did not go off.

The would-be bombers were all jailed in July last year for a minimum of 40 years.

Kabashi is the former boyfriend of Mulumebet Girma, the sister of Osman's wife, Yeshiemebet Girma.

The two women face trial at the Old Bailey next week alongside three others - Shadi Abdelgadir, Asias Girma and Omar Almagboul.

All five are accused of failing to disclose information about Osman and helping him evade arrest.

Judge Paul Worsley QC remanded Kabashi in custody.

He will be sentenced at the end of the trial.