High risk terrorist wins fight to stay in UK as deporting him would contravene his human rights

by Justin Penrose, Sunday Mirror

A HIGH-risk terrorist jailed for helping a 21/7 bomb plotter has won an appeal to stay in ­Britain on human rights grounds.

Ismail Abdurahman hid would-be bomber Hussain Osman for three days after his plan to repeat the carnage of the 7/7 suicide bombings failed in 2005.

Anti-terror officers and Home Office bosses wanted to kick him out but a judge ruled he could stay as he faced “inhumane ­treatment or punishment” if he was ­returned to his native Somalia.

The judge even granted the 28-year-old bail at the hearing on September 2 – leaving him free on the streets of London. He is staying in a bail hostel.

An Immigration Service source said: “It’s frankly outrageous that he has been allowed to stay here. This is a man who gave sanctuary to a would-be suicide bomber who wanted to kill hundreds of innocent people.”

Abdurahman has been categorised as a Level 3 convict – which means police believe he poses a serious risk to others. The extremist sympathiser was jailed for 10 years in 2008 – reduced to eight on appeal – for aiding and abetting Osman, one of five would-be bombers locked up for trying to set off explosives two weeks after the 7/7 attacks which killed 52. Osman fled the country but was tracked down and jailed.

Abdurahman was due for release in 2010, after five years in custody, but was kept in locked up until the deportation hearing. The UK Border Agency said: “We are extremely disappointed and appealing the decision.”


(2011-9-18/Sunday Mirror)