A British Islamic State terrorist will have to be released in days despite still being deemed a possible threat to the public.
Mohammed Uddin, then 30, was imprisoned in 2016 for seven years after pleading guilty to attempting to join ISIS in Syria.
The former security guard, from Barking in Essex, now aged 37, travelled through Turkey to join his terror icons in Syria but then attempted to creep back into Britain when he became disillusioned with jihadi life and was captured.
He was subsequently released from prison on licence in December 2019 but recalled to jail in February 2023 for having two secret phones and a tablet.
Police who went to his home with a search warrant said that he was found in possession of two smartphones and an electronic tablet, breaching his Parole Board release licence.
Under Parole Board rules, the decision must be examined to determine whether it was legitimate or whether it should be overturned.
The Parole Board conducted a paper review of Mr Uddin’s case, looking at his prison file and documented reports from prison officials and psychiatrists before making a decision on the 10th of May 2023.
The summary of the Parole Board’s review, seen by a newspaper outlet, states that Mr Uddin had these, the phone and tablet and was in breach of his licence. It was also discovered that he’d not been honest with probation about events in his life.
They said that Mr Uddine did not dispute his recall and the panel was satisfied that the decision to recall him to custody at this time had been appropriate and that if not released by the panel, Mr Uddin would otherwise be released at the end of his sentence in August 2023.
The report concluded that after evaluating the circumstances of his offending, his time on licence and the evidence presented in the dossier, the panel was not satisfied that release at this point would be safe for the protection of the public.
A spokesperson for the Parole Board said that they could confirm that a panel of the Parole Board refused the release of Mohammed Uddin following a paper review.
The spokesperson said that Parole Board decisions were solely focused on what risk a prisoner could represent to the public if released and whether that risk was manageable in the community.
The citizens of the United Kingdom have the right to feel safe, and the sentence was far too short at the time of the conviction, and it appears that these judges will never learn.
This is a total farce, there appear to be more terrorists running around on the loose than being locked up.
All terrorists should be incarcerated for life because a jail sentence doesn’t alter their perspective, and as soon as they’re released they do the same thing, or worse. The problem is we don’t have enough space in our prisons to accommodate.
Perhaps we should do what was done years ago, send these people to a remote, empty island somewhere and leave them there.
Between 1788 and 1868 more than 162,000 convicts were transported to Australia. Of these, about 7,000 arrived in 1833 alone. The convicts were transported as punishment for crimes committed.
There are ten notable uninhabited islands across the globe that could be used just for this purpose alone.
It’s not so much that we have weak and soft laws, it’s because we just don’t have the space to put them or build new prisons.
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