Detained terrorism suspects at highest level since 1970s

Times
By Sean O’Neill

THE number of high-security terrorist suspects in prison has risen to the highest level since the worst years of the IRA’s bombing campaigns.

The Times has learnt that there are 69 category A inmates in jails in England and Wales who are regarded by the Prison Service as terrorist detainees. Only 11 of those prisoners, who are all men, have been convicted under the Terrorism Act 2000.

A further 21 are on remand, several of them currently going through the courts in a series of trials which cannot be reported because of judicial orders.

Another 11 men are awaiting extradition to face terrorist charges overseas and 12 others are detained without trial, in either Belmarsh jail, South London, or Broadmoor special hospital, under the terms of the Anti-Terrorism Crime and Security Act.

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