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