‘A couple were jailed on Friday for glorifying the murder of the soldier Lee Rigby in videos posted on YouTube that were “offensive in the extreme”. Royal Barnes, 23, and his wife Rebekah Dawson, 22, of Hackney, north-east London, recorded and uploaded three videos shortly after the murder in Woolwich, south-east London, last May.’
The Guardian, 14th March 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A judge who was a coroner at the inquest into the July 7 London bombings will lead a government inquiry into the IRA “on the runs” controversy, it has been announced. Lady Justice Hallett has been appointed to chair the review which will conclude at the end of May.’
The Guardian, 11th March 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A judge has lifted an order banning the naming of an 18-year-old man charged with terror offences.’
BBC News, 3rd March 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Mr Gul had been imprisoned for a period, on 24 February 2011, for disseminating terrorist publications. When he was released on 6 July 2012, this was under licence, as is common following the release of dangerous prisoners. Mr Gul challenged some of the conditions of his licence by judicial review. The court rejected his challenge.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 2nd March 2014
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘It was lawful that a journalist’s assistant who was thought to harbour state secrets in electronic form against the wishes of Britain and a foreign power should be stopped and held at an airport on the basis that investigating him amounted to determining whether he was a terrorist under section 40(1)(b) of and paragraph 2(1) of Schedule 7 to the Terrorism Act 2000.’
WLR Daily, 19th February 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘David Cameron has ordered a review into secret police letters promising immunity to Northern Ireland terrorist suspects, but said he does not want to unpick parts of the 1998 peace deal that introduced the scheme.’
The Guardian, 27th February 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The two terrorists who murdered British soldier Lee Rigby on a south London street fought with guards yesterday in the dock of the court yards from the grieving family of the soldier they butchered as a judge sentenced the mastermind of the attack to die in prison.’
The Guardian, 26th February 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The chairman of the Police Federation for Northern Ireland has said he is appalled at the government’s “grubby secret deal” on IRA “on-the-run” cases. He was speaking after the case of a man accused of the IRA Hyde Park bomb collapsed following what victims’ families called “a monumental blunder”. Donegal man John Downey denied killing four soldiers in the 1982 bomb. The case collapsed because government officials mistakenly told him he was no longer a wanted man.’
BBC News, 26th February 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The High Court has rejected all the arguments supporting David Miranda’s application for judicial review of his detention at Heathrow Airport in August last year. In a highly readable and pungent judgment, Laws LJ has some robust things to say about the vaunting of journalistic interests over public security in the guise of Article 10, and the “mission creep” of requirements demanded by the courts for state action to be considered “proportionate”.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 19th February 2014
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘David Miranda has lost his legal challenge over his detention at Heathrow Airport under anti-terrorism powers.’
BBC News, 19th February 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A Muslim convert who targeted members of the public as part of a campaign for a sharia state in Britain has been given a groundbreaking asbo, police have said.’
The Guardian, 15th February 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A terrorist suspect who went missing after changing into a burka at a mosque has begun an appeal against measures taken against him to protect the public.’
The Guardian, 27th January 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘This sad case arose out of the 2006 terrorist attack on the Taj Mahal Palace, Mumbai, India. The claimants, who had spent 15 days backpacking around Goa, decided to treat themselves to one night of luxury at the hotel before they were due to fly home from Mumbai. Shortly after the attack began the claimants hid in their room, locked the door and turned off the lights. Some hours later they tried to escape through the window. Their room was on the third floor of the tower part of the hotel. They tied together sheets, curtains and towels to make a rope. They hung it outside their room and the first claimant went first. The “rope” came apart and he fell to the ground suffering serious spinal injuries which have left him paraplegic. The second claimant was rescued subsequently. She did not suffer physical injuries but claims for continuing psychiatric consequences.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 24th January 2014
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘Home Office is caught up in a row over its refusal to name terror suspects who have gone missing while on control orders.’
Daily Telegraph, 25th January 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Tpim controls on seven terror suspects expire this month, but what are they?’
Daily Telegraph, 23rd January 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Police and MI5 will put “tailored plans” in place to manage the risks posed by terror suspects when existing supervision measures expire later this month, the Home Office has insisted.’
The Guardian, 18th January 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A man has been jailed for refusing to give police the password to a memory stick that they could not crack. Syed Hussain, 22, from Luton, was convicted of failing to provide police with the password to the stick seized in a counter-terrorism operation.’
BBC News, 15th January 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Maximum sentences for a range of terrorism offences including weapons training will be upgraded from 14 years to life, the Telegraph can reveal.’
Daily Telegraph, 9th January 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Two men have been convicted of murdering a soldier in broad daylight near a military barracks in London, in the first al-Qaida-inspired attack to claim a life on British soil since 7 July 2005.’
The Guardian, 19th December 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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