56 TERROR PRISONERS FREE EARLY Fury as fiends cheat law change sparked by knifings
London Bridge knife attacker Usman Khan
Mo Shahjahan was part of gang conspiracy
A TOTAL of 56 terrorists have been freed in the past two years after serving half their sentences.
The fiends were let out before a law change banning early release in the wake of a knife atrocity in London back in February.
Figures uncovered by the Sunday Mirror show 34 were freed early in 2018. And another 22 strolled out of jail last year.
Last night critics accused the Tory Government of “shameful” soft-touch justice and said it was playing Russian roulette with innocent lives.
Chris Phillips, the former Head of the National Counter Terrorism Security Office, said: “It was shameful they were given early release.
“What happens with terrorism suspects is when they go to court they get a very large sentence from judges, but then they appeal that and their sentence gets cut down anyway.
“What we ended up having was people who have done very bad things not only getting a lesser sentence than they already had, but then having that divided in two.”
He added: “The criminal justice system was playing
Kazi Islam tried to turn vulnerable teen into killer
Sudesh Amman went on Streatham rampage
Police in Streatham after Sudesh Amman ran amok and was shot dead Russian roulette with lives. Those early also include Mo Shahjahan, who who were crying out for these people was part of a gang jailed alongside to be released don’t have to live next Usman Khan for plotting to bomb the door to them.” London Stock Exchange.
Mr Phillips said there was “no way” He was given an indeterminate the police and security services had sentence but is believed to have the resources to monitor released served only eight and a half years. terror prisoners. Kazi Islam served half of an eightyear
The law change came after Sudesh sentence for grooming a teenager Amman, 20, stabbed two people on with Asperger’s to kill UK soldiers. Streatham High Road, south London, Islam was jailed in 2015 for trying and was shot dead by police.
to persuade Harry Thomas to buy He had been released just 10 days earlier, having served half of his bomb ingredients but let out in 2019. sentence, and was under A Parole Board spokesman said: surveillance. “Terror offenders are now subject to
Just over two months a parole review before they are earlier, fanatic Usman Khan released from prison. killed two in the London “The Board welcomes this change Bridge stabbing horror. in legislation which safeguards the
He had been let out halfway public. Our members have received through a 16-year rigorous training on how to handle terror term. Terrorist Act cases.”
Those freed