Suicide plot Brit ran for his life

A BRITISH suicide bomber ran for his life when his device failed to explode — but was later found dead in the sea, an inquest heard yesterday.
Ex-public schoolboy Omar Khan Sharif fled an Israeli bar chased by a witness and a knife-wielding taxi driver.
He wriggled free after a clash in which he was twice kicked in the groin, then vanished in the streets of Tel Aviv.
Two weeks later his corpse was discovered.
An inquest in his hometown of Derby heard the 27-year-old father of three plotted to attack Mike’s Place, a seafront bar next to the American Embassy in April 2003.
Asif Hanif, 21, of Hounslow, West London, detonated explosives strapped to his body — becoming Britain’s first suicide bomber, killing three others and wounding 65. Sharif dumped his device in a bin as he ran away.
Coroner Peter Ashworth recorded a "narrative verdict", saying it would never be known how Sharif ended up in the water — or whether he had been executed by Hamas henchmen in punishment for failing in his terror mission.
But he said there was no evidence Sharif had been restrained or tortured by Israeli security forces.