Terror offender monitoring rules lawful

(BBC) The High Court has upheld the Ministry of Justice’s power to impose tighter curbs on the movements of convicted terrorists in the wake of the Fishmongers’ Hall attack.

Two judges rejected challenges from an associate of the man who carried out the 2019 attack saying he had been largely treated lawfully, except on one specific issue.

Omar Latif, from Cardiff, said officials had placed greater and illegal restrictions on his life after he had been released, amid fears of copycat attacks.

Latif’s former associate, Usman Khan, stabbed Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt at a conference at Fishmongers’ Hall in London after he had been earlier released from prison.

Inquests into the circumstances of their deaths are continuing.

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