Terrorism suspect linked to 7/7 bombings set to be released from prison

A British terrorist linked to the 7/7 bombings is set to be freed despite remaining a “risk to national security”.

Haroon Aswat, 50 – who was jailed for 20 years for plotting to form an extremist training camp – has been assessed by police as continuing to be a security risk.

However, a High Court judge has ruled that he can be released from a secure hospital after completing treatment for mental ill-health.

Mr Justice Jay said the release of Aswat from his detention under the Mental Health Act was now expected in the “relatively near future”, enabling him to return to his family in Batley, West Yorkshire.

He was deported to the UK and held under a US arrest warrant, accused of attempting to set up a terrorist training camp in Oregon, US, before 9/11 under the direction of the hate preacher Abu Hamza in 1999.

He was also said to have trained at a camp in Afghanistan in 2001, and stayed at an al-Qaeda safe house in Pakistan, where he met two 7/7 bombers.

Read more: The Telegraph (UK)