Terror release 'risked lives'

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A former detective who investigated a plot to blow up a Manchester shopping centre said lives were put at risk by a failure to prosecute in the UK.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...ester-31738840

Retired Det Ch Insp Allan Donoghue said the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) was wrong not to charge Abid Naseer with planning a terrorist attack.

Naseer, 28, was found guilty by a US court on Wednesday of being part of a trans-Atlantic al-Qaeda conspiracy.

The CPS said that evidence was admissible but was "very limited".

Naseer had been arrested in Manchester in 2009 during a series of raids by counter terrorism police as part of Operation Pathway.

But the CPS decided not to charge the Pakistani national and, after an attempt to deport him failed, he was allowed back on to the streets.

I wonder if the CPS would come to exactly the same conclusion now.

All's well that ends well. He won't have quite so cushy a time in a US prison as he would have had here.

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... and in other news:

A chemistry teacher who admitted Syria-related terror offences has been jailed for six years.

Jamshed Javeed, from Manchester, was "determined to fight Jihad" despite pleas from his family not to, Woolwich Crown Court heard.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-31749157