Parsons Green tube bomb: CCTV appears to show suspect with bag

Fresh footage has emerged that appears to show the Parsons Green bomb suspect carrying a Lidl carrier bag on the morning of the attack.

The video, obtained by the Press Association, shows a figure dressed in grey carrying the distinctive carrier bag. In pictures taken at the scene on Friday morning, the failed bomb can be seen in what appears to be the same bag.

The new footage was obtained from a camera outside Ecco La Vera pizzeria on Vicarage Road in Sunbury-on-Thames, which is just minutes away from the foster home of the suspect.

He is believed to have passed the pizzeria, which is on a road leading to Sunbury train station, just after 7am on Friday, about 80 minutes before the device went off at Parson Green station on a District line train bound for Edgware Road, injuring 30 people.

The time shown on the footage is 7.30am on Friday but it is understood to be about 30 minutes fast.

Footage obtained by ITV News on Sunday appears to show the same man near the house while video obtained by the Sun apparently captures him further down Vicarage Road.

There has been some speculation as to why Scotland Yard has not yet released any CCTV images of the suspected attacker from the train or underground system. On BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Saturday, the security minister was asked by the presenter John Humphrys if this was surprising given how footage can jog people’s memories.

Ben Wallace said: “I totally agree that CCTV footage is extremely useful and I have no doubt at some stage that will come but the conduct of the investigation I leave to the police and security services, and why and what they do with that information.”

However, police later said they had no plans to release CCTV footage.