Torture guard is scared of torture

AN Iranian prison guard who led victims to be tortured is free to live in Britain – because she would be at risk of torture herself if she were sent home.

The woman, known only as AB to protect her and her family’s identity, spent years taking dissidents to face interrogation and death at the hands of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the powerful military unit that stamps out opposition to Iran’s strict Islamic rule.

She fled to the UK after helping a relative escape from the women’s jail in which she worked.

Her claim for asylum on the grounds she had ‘only been obeying orders’ was rejected because the Home Office believed she had ‘committed a crime against humanity’.

But on appeal she was allowed to stay here, as judges have said she would be at risk of torture if returned to Iran.