Burka terror suspect ‘played the legal system’

 
13 November 2013

MPs are today demanding more details on how a terror suspect who went on the run dressed in a burka had been freed three times from custody.

Mohammed Ahmed Mohamed, 27, was most recently granted bail in August after being held over allegations that he had tampered with his electronic tag.

On the day he left a west London mosque in disguise, Mohamed, 27, was still facing 20 charges for breaking the restrictions of a terrorism prevention and investigation measure and an earlier control order.

Charles Farr, director general of the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism, told the home affairs select committee that had he been convicted he could have faced more than a year in jail and would not have been able to abscond 12 days ago.

Committee member Michael Ellis said: “He played the legal system.”

The committee has asked the Home Office for more details of the case, including a full time line. Mohamed is understood to have received training and fought overseas in support of al Shabab, the terror group linked to al Qaeda.

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