Terrorists escaping prosecution for crimes committed inside prison, watchdog warns

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. They think ‘let’s just sit on it’, ‘monitor’ is the buzzword.” The officer said staff who reported potential crimes got “deflated” when action was not taken and became less likely to act on future incidents. Mr Hall said there was a “risk of missed opportunities”, as well as a knock-on effect on the information shared with other agencies when extremists are released. open image in gallery Terror plotters Naweed Ali, Khobaib Hussain and Mohibur Rahman, who were jailed in 2017, met in HMP Belmarsh “Risk assessment has got to be a holistic approach, particularly the cases where people haven’t been convicted of terror offences but have been identified as carrying a terrorist risk.” Mr Hall warned of the threat from inmates who had become radicalised in prison, and those who were prosecuted for offences unrelated to terrorism as a “disruption” tactic because evidence of their extremist activities was not strong enough. “I saw examples of people equally dangerous who are not convicted of terror offences.” Mr Hall said that deradicalisation schemes should be widened to include extremists who have not been convicted of terror offences, although the Fishmongers’ Hall attacker’s compliance with such programmes raised questions over their effectiveness.