Jurors retired today to consider their verdicts in the case of the "wife" of a July 21 bomber accused of not telling police about the attack.

Yeshi Girma is alleged to have known of Hussain Osman's plans for "carnage and mass murder" in the summer of 2005, the Old Bailey has heard.

Girma is also accused of helping Osman to flee to Brighton following his failed suicide bombing at Shepherd's Bush Tube station in west London.

But the 32-year-old, of Stockwell, south London, claimed she was not married to him and had no idea what he was planning.

Girma told the court that although she had three children with Osman, they did not live together and she saw him only once or twice a fortnight.

She denies charges that she had information about terrorism and "without reasonable excuse" failed to disclose it.

Alongside her in the dock are her brother Esayas Girma, 22, also from Stockwell, and sister Mulu, 24, from Brighton.

Also on trial are Shadi Abdelgadir, 25, and Omer Almagboul, 23, from Brighton.

All five deny helping Osman escape and failing to disclose information about his involvement in the July 21 attacks.

Mulu Girma's boyfriend Mohamed Kabashi, who shared a flat with Abdelgadir and Almagboul, has pleaded guilty to similar charges, jurors have been told.