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Police were just an hour behind bombers

At 1.47pm on Saturday June 30, 2007, Kafeel Ahmed sent a text message from his mobile phone to his brother in Liverpool. It took just seconds but it lit up the police hunt for the most wanted men in Britain.

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Torcuil Crichton and Marianne Taylor

At 1.47pm on Saturday June 30, 2007, Kafeel Ahmed sent a text message from his mobile phone to his brother in Liverpool. It took just seconds but it lit up the police hunt for the most wanted men in Britain.