'I thought 7/7 bombers were Asian drug dealers' - Leeds grandmother

From her bedroom window Sylvia Waugh watched the bombers loading rucksacks packed with homemade explosives into cars in the early hours of July 7 2005, the inquest heard.

Mrs Waugh, who lived just yards from the bomb factory in a flat in Alexandra Grove, Leeds, said she thought the men were moving drugs and was terrified that they had seen her.

She told how she was woken just after 4am by voices from the path outside her bedroom window.

Sitting up in bed, she pulled aside her net curtains so she could see what was happening.

"I saw a group of Asians around some motor cars talking and then the boots of the motors lifted up and they were putting things into them," she said.

"They were putting things into the boots of the cars. They were knapsacks, bags, but I really thought they were drugs."

Suddenly one of the men looked back at her, the hearing was told.

"I knew he had seen me and he frightened me, and that's when I got up out of bed," she said.

"My partner went into the room and he told me, 'That's what you get for being nosey looking out of the window'."

Mrs Waugh said she saw "at least six" men putting the bags into two cars, one blue and the other white, outside the property between 4.05am and 4.10am on July 7.

Shown pictures of the four men who carried out the 7/7 attacks, she said she saw all of them at the Alexandra Grove bomb factory apart from Hasib Hussain, and she identified the man who looked at her as Jermaine Lindsay.

The inquests have heard that three of the bombers - Mohammed Sidique Khan, Shehzad Tanweer, and Hussain - left Leeds bound for London in a blue Nissan Micra on the morning of July 7.

They met up with Lindsay at Luton railway station and all four travelled together to King's Cross station.

Police investigated the mystery white car but were unable to find any trace of it.