EXCLUSIVE: Petition calls for inquiry into why MI5 'did not act on 7/7 Bomber intel it was handed a year before terror strike killed 52 people'

A FORMER accountant who passed intelligence on the 7/7 Bombers to MI5 before they carried out the terror atrocities has launched a petition calling for an inquiry into "why it wasn't acted upon."

The bombings were a series of co-ordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks on July 7 2005 that targeted commuters travelling by bus and Underground during the morning rush hour in London, killing 52 and injuring 700.

Paul Blanchard, 79, says he handed over the names of some of the bombers and details of their involvement with terrorist financing a year before the attacks.

It was while he was working as an undercover informant for the Spanish Police intelligence, after he provided them with evidence of a major alleged fraud run from Tenerife.

Now Mr Blanchard wants The Intelligence and Security Committee of the UK Parliament to re-open an inquiry into the bombings to look at why the intelligence was not acted upon.

You can view the petition here.

Read about Mr Blanchard's remarkable story in these earlier reports:

Retired Accountant's Secret Past

I Know Who Killed John Palmer and Will Name Them

Working with IRA and Al Qaeda, ending up in jail: Adventures of an off-shore accountant

CODENAME ISABELLA: Judgement due in extraordinary case of accountant turned 'supergrass' wanted in Spain