Failed London bombers made getaway on rickshaws

Two doctors accused of plotting failed car bombings in London and Glasgow last year escaped the scene of their first botched attack on cycle rickshaws, their trial heard yesterday.
The getaway method was revealed among graphic details on the second day of the trial of Iraqi-born Bilal Abdulla, 28, and Jordanian neurologist Mohammed Asha, 29, who both worked for Britain's state-run National Health Service.
The pair are accused of conspiracy to murder and to cause explosions in a failed double car bombing in London on June 29, 2007, and a bid the next day to crash a car filled with gas bottles into the main terminal at Glasgow airport.
Recounting the London attack, prosecutors told how they placed one rickshaw outside a packed nightclub, and the other at a bus stop, to get away after leaving two Mercedes Benz cars filled with petrol, gas canisters and nails.
Prosecutor Jonathan Laidlaw said the two men were captured on CCTV security cameras leaving the area in the early hours of the morning.