How ministers’ panic over terror could make the situation worse
The IndependentNext week, MPs are to consider “emergency legislation” that aims to keep terror offenders who were due to be automatically released in prison for longer. It was the third knife rampage in just over two months to be launched by a convicted terror offender, following the Fishmongers’ Hall attack and a stabbing by two inmates inside a high-security jail. open image in gallery It is not clear whether attempts were made to deradicalise Sudesh Amman in prison Proper scrutiny becomes even more difficult in an atmosphere of panic over a succession of terror attacks, and the forthcoming release of more potentially dangerous extremists. And all signs point to the real emergency not being the timing of terrorists’ release, but what is happening to them in prison Sudesh Amman is not known to have undergone deradicalisation work, and Usman Khan appears to have deceived his mentors and probation officers.
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