Two convicted terrorists from north London could be released in the next two months, as the Government scrambles to pass a law to keep offenders already in prison behind bars.
Ministers are aiming to pass emergency legislation to stop any more terrorists being automatically freed from prison, following the Streatham stabbing on Sunday.
A target of February 27 has been set to rush the bill through Parliament - a day before the next terrorist is expected to be freed.
This comes after convicted terrorist Sudesh Amman, 20, stabbed two people on Streatham High Road. He was jailed for possessing and distributing terrorist documents in December 2018, but was freed automatically halfway through his sentence last month. He had been put under 24-hour police surveillance on his release.
Some offenders have been sentenced for a fixed period, but were told they will be automatically released half-way through so they can service the remainder of the sentence on licence in the community. Because the release is automatic, it does not involve the oversight of the Parole Board.
It may be that the offenders pleaded guilty on the condition they will be automatically released early.
According to the right-leaning think tank Henry Jackson Society and reports in the Times newspaper, those who could be released may include:
- Mohammed Ghani - Barnet: was sentenced to two years and four months in prison May last year after threatening to kill police officers.
- Mohammed Khilji - north-west London: was sentenced to five years in prison in June 2018 after being found guilty of posting beheading videos on WhatsApp, as well as footage giving advice on how to make a car bomb.
- Jamshed Javeed - Manchester: was jailed for six years in March 2015 for planning to travel from his Manchester home to Syria to join the so-called Islamic State (IS).
- Mohammed Zahir Khan - Sunderland: the father-of-one, originally from Birmingham, had served long sentences in the past for drugs supply offences and moved to the north east to make a break from gangs. He was jailed for four-and-a-half years in May 2018.
- RXG: According to reports, Britain's youngest terrorist, a boy known only as RXG who plotted to murder police officers in Australia, is due for release this month. The boy became involved in orchestrating a plot where a co-conspirator would launch attacks during a 2015 Anzac Day parade and received a life sentence with a minimum term of five years in 2015, having been arrested in March that year.
- Atiq Ahmed - Oldham, Greater Manchester: was arrested after hurling abuse at staff at a school in the town and later found to have IS propaganda on his phone, is due to be released in March. He was jailed for four-and-a-half years in May 2018 after extremist material was found on devices including a tablet that had been dumped in his kitchen bin.
