LONDON, JANUARY 7 All of 22 years and a staggering inheritance of £121,000. That is the mystery UK authorities are figuring out over Shehzad Tanweer, one of the suicide bombers who carried out the London attack on July 7, 2005.

Tanweer, of Pakistani origin, lived and worked in an impoverished suburb of Leeds in the Midlands has left behind the fortune, and, no will. The sum is all the more staggering given his humble family origins and that his income came from his job in a basic fish-and-chip shop.

Tanweer was among the group of suicide bombers who travelled down to London to carry out the attacks —he was responsible for the blasts in East London’s Aldgate Tube station. In his rucksack was the bomb which, when detonated, blew him up and killed seven others while dozens were injured. The others in the group —Mohammad Sidique Khan, 30, Hasib Hussain, 18, and Jermaine Lindsay, 19.

As investigations went underway after the bombings, security services were trying to find out which Islamic extremist groups had worked most closely in the training and funding of these suicide bombers. The news of Tanweer’s unlikely amassed fortune will raise those suspicions further.

Tanweer had left his Leeds home after dropping out of college and travelled to Pakistan in late 2004 which is when he was believed to have become indoctrinated at extremist madarsas. On his return, it appears that he retained links with certain fanatical wings.

Ironically, prior to the 7/7 bombings, British intelligence service MI5 was believed to have investigated his background but discounted him as a potential terror suspect.

The details of the wealth of his estate were revealed as Tanweer had died intestate (without leaving a will). His father, Mohammad Muntaz Tanweer, who runs the fish-and-chip shop in which his son used to work, has applied for a formal administration letter to take over the handling of the estate, since he is next of kin.

The High Court’s probate department official said: ‘‘The net amount figure of £121,000 is the realisable figure which is what is left after taxes and debts on the estate have been deducted. We have no information as to what the estate was worth before that deduction was made.’’

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