“Sentenced to a minimum of 8 years in prison in 2012 with a requirement that the parole board assess his danger to the public before release, he was released in December 2018 – without a parole board assessment….When sentencing Khan in 2012, Wilkie said that he was so dangerous that he was imposing a so-called imprisonment for public protection (IPP) indeterminate sentence of 8 years.”
So he was “so dangerous” in 2012 that he was given an “imprisonment for public protection (IPP) indeterminate sentence of 8 years.”
How a sentence can be “indeterminate” and for eight years is left unexplained. The more important question, however, is what changed so that he was considered to be no longer dangerous. Why was he judged leniently? Because he said he had changed. And ever-credulous British officials, anxious not to appear “Islamophobic,” believed him.
“Usman Khan: Al-Qaeda-inspired militant launched London Bridge attack,” Reuters, November 30, 2019:
Nine years before Usman Khan killed two people in a stabbing spree on London Bridge, he was overheard by British security services discussing how to use an Al-Qaeda manual he had memorized to build a pipe bomb.
It was a snippet of conversation, along with other intelligence about a plot to bomb the London Stock Exchange, that prompted British police to arrest Khan – then 19 years old – and a group of older men on Dec. 20, 2010.
Sentenced to a minimum of 8 years in prison in 2012 with a requirement that the parole board assess his danger to the public before release, he was released in December 2018 – without a parole board assessment….
When sentencing Khan in 2012, Wilkie said that he was so dangerous that he was imposing a so-called imprisonment for public protection (IPP) indeterminate sentence of 8 years.
“The long, monitored, discussions of Usman Khan about the madrassa (training camp) and his attitudes towards it and terrorism are highly eloquent of the seriousness of their purpose,” Wilkie said.
In effect, it meant he would remain incarcerated as long as he was considered to be a danger to the public and that the parole board should assess whether he should be released.
But in 2011, then-Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron announced a review of the IPP sentencing. The IPP was abolished in 2012.
After Khan appealed his sentence, appeal court judges in 2013 quashed the indeterminate period of incarceration, and he was given a determinate sentence of 16 years – meaning he could be released after serving just half of his term.
Court of Appeal judges said at the time that the Parole Board should consider whether those convicted were safe enough to be released. The Parole Board said on Saturday that it had not been involved in deciding Khan’s release.
“The Parole Board can confirm it had no involvement with the release of the individual identified as the attacker,” the board said, adding that Khan “appears to have been released automatically on license (as required by law), without ever being referred to the Board.”…

Jayell says
Apparently the prison authorities (or whoever) just followed the usual rules and regulations without bothering to refer the matter back to the Parole Board. Maybe they have so many musilms clogging up the jails and causing big problems they just want to get shot of them as soon as possible.
Rufolino says
Looked at like this, the British authorities have no one to blame for this attack but themselves.
The judicial weakness which enabled this murderer’s evil intent is spine-chilling.
If this is now an ongoing judicial “policy” (and there are numerous indications that it is), Islam has got it made in the UK.
I’m waiting for an amusingly trivial appraisal of this crime from the so-called “Mayor of London” (by the name of Khan).
Angemon says
“Maybe they have so many musilms clogging up the jails and causing big problems they just want to get shot of them as soon as possible.<”
If that’s indeed the case, I0d only say two things to British authorities:
1 – Dual-citizens should have their citizenship revoked.
2 – Foreign criminals should be deported with extreme prejudice.
Westman says
Usman Khan had ample time in prison to reinforce the Quranic notion that he could enter Janna through the best door by becoming a Martyr. Killing a few citizens would bring police with guns and wearing a fake explosive vest would guarantee Martyrdom by infidel. And it worked exactly as planned except there is no Janna and Islam is a fraud, created to convince men to die for Muhammad.
Trick_or_Treat says
Anyway, the upshot is, the filthy piece of muslim shit will never ever be getting granted parole ever again to get out on the streets and practice the incitements of their filthy qur’an, and neither will any brain-dead establishment dropkick ever be having the pleasure of granting it to him – or even setting it!
Should be good incentive for those with half a brain in the police force to always try to make damn sure that such people never get to see a pair of handcuffs (let alone the inside of a courtroom or bed and breakfast in a jail cell) right from the very first instance. That takes it right out of the hands of stupids then.
Frank Anderson says
If this were in the US, which it is not, think about the impact of the case Tarasoff v. Board of Regents, where a mental inmate was released and soon killed Ms. Tarasoff, just as he told his psychiatrist before release. Millions of dollars in damages and attorney fees changed hands, which did not bring Ms. Tarasoff back, but taught a lesson that may need to be taught again in many places.
Donovan Nuera says
The father of one of the killed, lawyer Jack Merritt, doesn’t want his son’s death to be used as impetus to impose more “draconian” sentences for convicted criminals. Nope, poetry and creative writing is the panacæa! (Sounds like the infamous Abbott case from NY in the 1970s). The dad sounds like the late Miss Ladenbuerger’s deluded father; asking donations to be made to your local asylum center after his daughter was raped and strangled by a known Afghan criminal in Freiburg). Deradicalization will never work. A good first step is to ban imams and Koranic reading material from prison as well as harsher punishment for gangs who force other prisoners to convert. I don’t think the Allies gave copies of Mein Kampft to Jerry POWs. Time to deport the killer’s Khan’s family. Time to jail Adnem Choudhary! I hope narwhals are as haram as pigs!
Ric says
Surely no one is surprised that this considered highly dangerous Jihadi wandered about unfettered. Indeed, the British/London overlords from leaders to the authorities failed those murdered or maimed by this heinous terrorist. Those, as mentioned above, needless to say, priorities are not the security of the non-Muslim population but to track down and to prosecute alleged Islamophobes; those daring to exercise one’s Democratic Rights.
The most significant and fundamental error of the authorities, the judiciary, is a sentence in which this terrorist/Jihadi spent merely eight years in HMP. Most disquieting, Jihadi Khan did not slip through the cracks upon his release but released to roam the streets of London and the nation unobstructedly. One suspects the police and other law enforcement officials do not afford the similar freedom to Tommy Robinson or others deemed as the Radical-Right. Perhaps, the authorities would serve the citizens more competently by shadowing the real enemies of the state, Muslims.
Frank Anderson says
Ric, since “actions speak louder than words” does the actions of the authorities show where their loyalties lie?
Nero says
Serious Experiment that Completely went wrong!!!!-You dont deradicalise “Muslims”they are just and pious followers of ISLAM must be the subject.When you persistently treat symptoms the DISEASE will silently kill you.
Trick_or_Treat says
Rabid followers of islam – not sure about the ‘just and pious’ bit.
Thomas Richard says
When a country abolishes capital punishment……human life is devalued…..and victims become commodities.
somehistory says
If heads had rolled back when he was released, perhaps two people who are now dead, might still be alive.
It seems so many errors were made in favor of this son of demons, that he didn’t spend the time he should have behind bars, he was released on his own words of “i want to be a better citizen and learn islam better” or some such nonsense, and was invited to a place where he could follow through on his earlier desire he expressed a decade ago.
Next we’ll learn that some agent of MI5 or is it 6, was right behind him on the bridge, or at the Fishmonger’s Hall and heard him express his desire to murder for islam…but they didn’t wish to jump to conclusions and make an arrest too soon. (re: the agent of the FBI being right behind the two in Garland, TX).
gravenimage says
Although considered highly dangerous, London Bridge jihadi was released from prison without parole board assessment
…………..
Suicidal insanity.
Frank Anderson says
GI, the people who made the decision are not the people taking the risks or getting killed.
In the US the people making the decision to release without taking competent professional steps violate a legally recognized “fiduciary duty”. Tarasoff v. Board of Regents 17 Cal. 3d 425, 551 P.2d 334, 131 Cal. Rptr. 14, (1975).
gravenimage says
Frank, they are in deep denial of the Jihad threat–even when it endangers them, as well.
Frank Anderson says
Honored and appreciated friend, we agree.
gravenimage says
Yes, Frank.
I hope you are feeling better these days.
Frank Anderson says
More problems = more pills. Still trying to avoid more surgery. God is still in charge and wants me here for a reason. . .that He is keeping secret. Can’t lose. Still smiling and grateful for friends.