EXCLUSIVE Revealed: Widow of 7/7 suicide bomber Mohammad Sidique Khan has reinvented herself under a different name to build a brand new life
Hasina Khan, now 47, cut all ties to her former existence after her then husband masterminded the worst terror attack ever to hit Britain.
Twenty years on from the London blasts that killed 52 and injured 700, Hasina - who now goes by a new first name - lives in a smart four-bedroom detached house in West Yorkshire.
It is less than five miles from where cold-blooded Khan plotted the carnage that claimed 52 lives and left more than 700 injured on July 7, 2005.
MailOnline understands that Mrs Khan - who said she had been completely unaware of her first husband's descent into extremism or his secret trips to an al-Qaeda training camp - has transformed her life, running holistic wellness retreats for women from the comfort of her home.
She also quietly remarried after falling in love with a 50-year-old plumber, with whom she is believed to have three children.
Her daughter with Khan, born just a year before the terror attacks, is now aged 21.
Locals in the quiet West Yorkshire town where Mrs Khan now lives told how she has rebuilt her life from the ashes of Britain's darkest day.
One said: 'Hasina has completely moved on with her life. She found love and they seem like a very normal, happy couple. You'd never imagine what she's been through.
"They keep themselves to themselves. She's often seen out and about with the kids, and her husband is always busy working. They're just like any other family around here - polite, private, and trying to live a peaceful life.
'She's always very friendly when you see her.
"It's 20 years on now and life has changed for the better. But even now, she must still feel traumatised by what her former husband did. I'm sure the shock of that day will never fully fade."
Mrs Khan moved from Sheffield to West Yorkshire in around 2021 after securing a detached house for £120,000 in 2017.
She and her husband carried out an extensive rebuild, virtually demolishing the original property before transforming it into a sleek, modern four-bedroom home complete with solar panels and a network of discreetly-positioned CCTV cameras.
The family now live behind electric gates, with an Audi parked on the drive.
Locals told how Mrs Khan is now a personal trainer offering holistic therapies.
In one social media post, the fitness enthusiast revealed how exercise became her salvation during dark times: 'Exercise has always been a passion of mine, as far as I can remember
'It has always been a way to destress and feel happier.
"It was an escape but it also made me stronger and healthier.'
Mrs Khan also devotes her time to an Islamic humanitarian charity, raising funds and awareness for displaced Palestinians in Gaza.
When approached by MailOnline at her home ahead of the 20th anniversary of the London bombings, Mrs Patel initially denied being the widow of Khan, saying we had the wrong address.
She later rowed back on this, explaining: 'Obviously we have to safeguard ourselves.'
She added: 'I've no comment to make. I'm not saying nothing.'
Her second husband said that speaking about 7/7 would potentially be 'traumatising' for her.
She met 7/7 bomber Khan at Leeds Metropolitan University and they married in 2001, years before Khan transformed from an unassuming teaching assistant into Britain's most reviled mass murderer.
In a 2007 TV interview, she spoke of his disbelief and horror at what her husband had done, saying: 'If somebody did that to me or my daughter I could never forgive them. How can you be so calculated and not have any emotions?'
She also revealed learning that she had miscarried their child 40 minutes after Khan had blown himself up. She tried to contact him, not realising he was dead.
She said: 'I went back to my own house and put the TV on and saw that the bombings had happened. It was just all over the news.
'I just couldn't believe it. You normally hear of things like this in America, but you know, London, and I was more worried."
Mrs Khan added that she was ashamed of her murderer husband but prayed for his forgiveness.
She said: ''I just hope and I pray for him because I feel there was a good person in there but feel he was probably misled and brainwashed by the wrong people.
'Looking back I can't imagine how I got through those few months. It was like trying to come to terms with the fact that he has committed a terrorist attack.
'I couldn't believe it, I had lost my child and been moved out of my house. Everything at once.
'It was unbelievable. Looking back I can't believe how I got through it, I tried to block it out, tried not to think about it."
It would later emerge that her husband had recorded a video for their baby daughter then six months old, now approaching her 21st birthday.
In it he urged their daughter to be strong and to 'learn to fight', telling her: "Fighting is good".
In the footage, Khan kissed his daughter on the head as he told her that he was sad he would miss her growing up.
'Sweetheart, not long to go now. And I'm going to really, really miss you a lot. I'm thinking about it already. Look, I absolutely love you to bits and you have been the happiest thing in my life. You and your mum, absolutely brilliant.
'I don't know what else to say. I just wish I could have been part of your life, especially these growing up - these next months, they're really special with you learning to walk and things. I just so much wanted to be with you but I have to do this thing for our future and it will be for the best, inshallah [God willing], in the long run. That's the most important thing.'
The atrocity remains the deadliest terror attack on British soil.
At 4am on July 7, 2005, Khan, 30, Shehzad Tanweer, 22, and Germaine Lindsay, 19 - left Leeds in a hired Nissan Micra, meeting a fourth accomplice in Luton before heading to London.
Khan detonated his device on a Circle Line train at Edgware Road. Tanweer struck between Liverpool Street and Aldgate, while Lindsay carried out the deadliest blast on the Piccadilly Line between King's Cross and Russell Square.
An hour later, Hasib Hussain, 18, set off the fourth bomb on a bus at Tavistock Square.
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