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Former model who helped the 21/7 bombers was given £1.4MILLION in legal aid while fighting justice

A FORMER model caged for helping the 21/7 bombers was awarded £1.4million in legal aid while battling justice.

Mulu Girma then got thousands more for her human rights fight to stay in the UK.

 Mulu Girma, caged for helping the 21/7 bombers, was given a whopping £1.4million in legal aid
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Mulu Girma, caged for helping the 21/7 bombers, was given a whopping £1.4million in legal aidCredit: Ray Collins - The Sun

Ethiopian-born Girma, 35, got ten years’ jail for aiding a terror plot to bomb packed London commuter trains and a bus on July 21, 2005.

She hid her jihadi brother-in-law Hussein Osman and dressed his wounds after his failed bid to kill commuters.

Then she helped the would-be suicide bomber flee the country while refusing to tell police about the mass murder plan.

Shock figures obtained by Sun Freedom of Information checks now reveal she got £1,435,090 legal aid linked to her crown court trial in 2008.

The sum, including £1,020,390 for barristers and £360,770.54 for solicitors, would pay the wages of 62 NHS nurses for a year.

Figures also show Girma benefited from £30,162 in civil legal aid between 2009 and 2013 — and is understood to have won a battle to avoid deportation.

Harry Fletcher, of the Victims’ Rights Campaign, said last night: “The amounts given to perpetrators of terror in legal aid are huge compared to compensation to victims.”

Girma — full name Muluemebet Girma — was previously a Miss Brighton contestant, model and pharmaceutical science student.

The Home Office refused to confirm or deny if Girma’s application to remain was successful.

 Girma also benefited from £30,162 in civil legal while she battled to remain in the UK
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Girma also benefited from £30,162 in civil legal while she battled to remain in the UKCredit: Rex Features
 Girma helped jihadi brother-in-law Hussein Osman escape the country when his suicide bomb attempt failed
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Girma helped jihadi brother-in-law Hussein Osman escape the country when his suicide bomb attempt failedCredit: Times Newspapers Ltd
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