Mohammed Shakil, Sadeer Saleem and Waheed Ali PA

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FAMILIES of the 7/7 victims have repeated demands for an inquiry after the only suspects to be charged over the attacks were cleared.

After a four-year investigation and two trials costing £100m, no-one has been brought to justice for the terror attacks that killed 52 people on London’s transport network.

Three friends of the 7 July mastermind Mohammad Sidique Khan - Waheed Ali, 25, Mohammed Shakil, 32, and Sadeer Saleem, 28 - were acquitted of conspiring to cause an explosion yesterday.

They had been accused of carrying out a “hostile reconnaissance mission” of potential targets including the London Eye and the Aquarium seven months before the 2005 bombings.

Today families made a fresh appeal for a public inquiry to find out why MI5 surveillance of Khan and fellow bomber Shehzad Tanweer was abandoned.

The men were photographed along with convicted terrorist Omar Khyam, who plotted to blow up the Ministry of Sound nightclub.

Rachel North, who was injured in the King’s Cross explosion, said: “We want an inquiry which can get to the bottom of what went wrong and why Khan wasn’t stopped. We don’t want a witch-hunt, we just want the truth.”

Graham Foulkes, 57, the father of 22-year- old David who died in the Edgware Road blast, said: “The failures of the intelligence services to pick up on these people needs to be looked at.

“The same procedures are in place now that were there at the time of the bombings. How can any of us be confident in them for the future?”

Ali, Shakil and Saleem all admitted attending terrorist training camps in Pakistan with Khan, however this only became illegal in the UK in 2006.

Ali and Shakil will be sentenced today after they were found guilty of conspiring to attend a training camp in 2007.