Abu Hamza....all Comes To He Who Waits !

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-27478998

I leave all comments to others.

[excelsior-1]

i wonder what his sentence will be

[tonyav]

Oh dear, what a shame ! love his new name Mustafa Kamel.

[mikey4444]

Say what you like about the Yanks...they have taken just 4 weeks to bring this frightful man to justice, when we tried for years and failed.

[New Judge]

To be fair, Mikey, the UK did "bring him to justice" - after a fashion. He was jailed for seven years in 2006. It was our efforts to chuck him out which failed miserably until 2012 (when, of course, he should still have been in prison but for our ridiculous custody rules which sees convicts released after serving less than half their sentence).

The cause of these failures - step forward none other than the European Court of Human Rights and their determination to see his rights projected and the safety of UK citizens jeopardised. Only when the ECHR had been satisfied (and one of the stipulations they made was that, if convicted, he would not be sent to a "Supermax" prison) was he extradited to the US.

Compliance with the European Convention on Human Rights is, of course, a condition of EU membership so back we come to the old (now over ripe) chestnut. If we want the ability to chuck our people like Abu Hamza our membership of the EU must cease.

[anneasquith]

well, if ever there was an argument for leaving the EU. read above ^^^

[naomi24]

//they have taken just 4 weeks to bring this frightful man to justice, when we tried for years and failed. //

... and NJ has told you why. Will you be voting Ukip? ;o)

[ChillDoubt]

I feel a bacon butty coming on by way of celebration.....

[DTCwordfan]

Now, now, you are hamming it, chill.

"It is easier for a Kamel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for Warren Buffet to enter into the kingdom of heaven."

[ChillDoubt]

In fact, I'll even make it a bagel!

[Baldric]

Justice does appear to have been done at long last!

[DTCwordfan]

with lots of schmear and lox perhaps?

[Gromit]

So the mystery is, why did he spend 9 years at taxpayers expense in a British jail without trial?

He was an MI5 informant, so did they keep him out of court for fear of what he might divulge?

[New Judge]

And a more pertinent question might be why did it take extradition to the US and a conviction there to see him brough to justice in a matter which involved the murder of three UK citizens? Why were these matters not pursued against him here?

There is little doubt that had the US not been so diligent in ensuring his extradition he would still be here; the Home Secretary would still be fannying around trying to curtail his activities; Parliament would be spending inordinate amounts of time trying to pass control measures which met with the approval of the ECHR; he and his entourage of a family would still be living on benefits (doubtless many of them still are); M'Learned Friends would still be raking in wheelbarrows full of taxpayers' dosh in the form of Legal Aid being spent to allow him to continue his fight to thwart the will of Parliament through the courts. What a shambles this country has descended into when we cannot expel one odious unwanted dangerous individual who should never have been allowed to stay in the first place.

[emmie]

he is where he belongs, shame we can't shove that odious Anjem Choudary out the country, let him go and fight for his beliefs, or would that not be his aim, but to convert vulnerable people into doing his dirty work.

[Ichor]

Whatever his sentence is it will NOT be long enough!

[Ichor]

...and another thing. How did he get British citizenship and which Home Secretary was responsible for that decision???!!!!!!

[jomifl]

Ichor, I don't think that 'hell freezes over' is a proper legal term ;o)

[emmie]

he was once married to a British citizen, maybe that is how

[youngmafbog]

It only comes if you are not a member of the EU and dont subscribe to the ECHR.

[mushroom25]

he's no longer an Egyptian citizen so unless the government of the time are brave enough to make him stateless, he'll be our problem again when he's served his time in the US.