Monday, 12 November 2012

Bin Laden's 'right-hand man' and terror suspect Abu Qatada will be back on our streets TOMORROW…

Home Secretary Theresa May today blamed the European Court of Human Rights for the Government's thwarted attempt to deport hate preacher and suspected terrorist Abu Qatada. Qatada today won his appeal against deportation to Jordan to face trial and will be released tomorrow after being granted bail, forcing security officials to monitor him around the clock at huge cost to British taxpayers. She accused the body of 'moving the goalposts' over the deportation of dangerous criminals and has vowed to kick the hate preacher out of the UK. An immigration appeals court blocked the deportation because judges were not convinced that no evidence obtained through torture would be used against Qatada in Jordan. Scroll down for video Terror suspect: Abu Qatada (pictured in April) has won his appeal against deportation to Jordan to face trial Terror suspect: Abu Qatada (pictured in April) has won his appeal against deportation to Jordan to face trial Special Immigration Appeals Commission judges said the British government 'has not satisfied us that ...there is no real risk' that statements obtained under torture would not be used at a trial abroad. Qatada - whose lawyers had previously insisted that he would not get a fair trial in Jordan - was allowed to stay in Britain in 1994, but the Government desperately wants him deported. Mrs May also blasted the original 'deeply unsatisfactory' ruling from the European Court of Human Rights earlier this year, which said he could not be removed because he risks facing trial on evidence obtained by torture. It is a huge setback for the Government which has been trying to force him out of the UK for a decade. The radical cleric, once described by a judge as Osama Bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe, has been fighting extradition to Jordan, where he was convicted of terror charges in his absence in 1999. Mrs May told the House of Commons today: 'It's deeply unsatisfactory that Abu Qatada has not already been deported to Jordan. It's also deeply unsatisfactory that the European Court of Human Rights continues to move the goalposts. The Government has been doing everything it can to get rid of Abu Qatada and will continue to do so.' The judge said he wanted to subject Qatada to ‘standard-style’ bail conditions and after seven years of detention, did not want to deprive him of his liberty. The cleric will be subject to a 16-hour curfew and will be allowed out between 8am and 4pm. He will be bailed to his home address, but the court earlier heard he and his family were planning to move. Qatada will have to wear an electronic tag and be barred from using the internet and forbidden from contacting certain named people. He is being held on bail pending any Home Office appeal. Mrs May was given assurances by Jordan that no evidence gained through torture would be used against Qatada, who would face a retrial there over the terror charges. Conservative MP Peter Bone said Mrs May should ignore the court's decision and put Qatada on a plane back to Jordan and deal with the legal ramifications later.

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