THE car bomb attacks have increased pressure on police to catch brothers Ibrahim and Lamine Adam who have absconded from their Barkingside home.

The two are the brothers of terrorist Anthony Garcia who was sentenced to life imprisonment in April for his role in a fertiliser bomb plot that could have left hundreds dead.

In February last year the Government put the brothers on control orders, effectively placing them under house arrest, after receiving information that they planned to kill British soldiers serving abroad and, during Garcia's trial, an Al Qaeda supergrass claimed that Lamine had wanted to blow up a nightclub and was seeking information on bomb making.

On Monday, May 21, the pair failed to phone their monitoring company and have not been seen since.

The man leading the inquiry into the latest car bombings, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke, said: "I am asking members of the public who actually see these men not to approach them but to call 999 immediately."

A third man, Cerie Bullivant from Woodford Green, who went missing at the same time, handed himself into detectives at Belgravia police station last week, but the two brothers remain on the list of the Metropolitan Police's 12 most wanted.

Neighbours of the pair in Asthall Gardens reacted with astonishment to news of their involvement.

One said: "The parents aren't involved and I feel really sorry for them. In a respect you can understand one, but for the other two boys to be involved as well is a bit of a shocker."

Bullivant faces charges under the Prevention of Terrorism Act and has been remanded in custody to appear at City of Westminster magistrates court on Tuesday, July 24.