“My constituency is in the heart of middle Britain and I’m sure people living there will think that by using the legal aid system in this way he is abusing the hospitality, protection and privileges of this country.”
Yeah. The entire British political class seems to have gone insane. I myself am banned from the country for the crime of noting that Islam has doctrines mandating violence against unbelievers, but British authorities clearly want this bloodthirsty jihadi in the country. Well, they will all march together into the glorious multicultural future.
“Foreign terror suspect thought to have been planning an IS-style attack granted legal aid to fight extradition,” by Robert Verkaik, Telegraph, January 4, 2020:
A foreign terror suspect who the security services believe was planning to carry out an Islamic State terror attack in London has been granted legal aid to claim asylum in the UK.
The man, who can only be named as 03, was detained in London two years ago in a counter-terrorism operation involving MI5 and Scottland [sic] Yard.
At his flat police found an Islamic State ‘passport’, manuals on fighting with the terror group, terrorism propaganda vowing to kill Westerners and a chilling mocked-up photograph of a terrorist holding a rifle and picture of a London Routemaster bus with the words ‘Sometimes you just got to get up and go.’
Officers also found a picture of the decapitated body of American journalist James Foley who was murdered by Islamic State executioner Jihadi John as well as a video featuring the now-dead leader of Islamic State Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. He also had pictures on his computer of the nine terrorists responsible for the Paris attack in 2015 which killed more than 100 people.
Last night the decision to grant the suspect with legal aid was criticised by Tory MP Andrew Bridgen, who said: “My constituency is in the heart of middle Britain and I’m sure people living there will think that by using the legal aid system in this way he is abusing the hospitality, protection and privileges of this country.”
According to court documents, MI5 believes the man ‘aspires to engage in some form of attack-planning in the UK’ and ‘that the focus of an ISIL-inspired attack is most likely to be a high profile, heavily-populated city, such as London.’
The security services are concerned that he is planning to ‘use explosives, firearms, vehicles, knives or other bladed weapons, blunt instruments; or any combination of these.’
In 2010 he was arrested outside Finsbury Park station with a surgical knife rolled up in his shorts. In September 2017, 03, who does not have a driving licence, was stopped by police while he was driving a ‘high-powered Mercedes S500’….