One of Britain’s most dangerous terrorists, who plotted to blow up an army base with a toy car bomb, will be allowed to walk free after a parole board rejected a last-ditch bid to keep him in jail.
Express Zahid Iqbal will be released again after a reconsideration to keep him locked up was refused by Parole Board chiefs – despite two experts warning against doing so.
The move has sparked furious backlash from terrorist survivors and politicians alike after the People’s Channel first sounded the alarm over the early release. Now, GB News can reveal Iqbal is set to be allowed to roam the streets of Britain once again.
A convicted terrorist linked to a plot involving a toy car bomb attack on an army base is set to be released for the second time after parole officials rejected efforts to keep him behind bars. The Express reported at the time how Zahid Iqbal was jailed in 2013 after plotting a terrorist bomb attack against an army site.
The case has now reignited uproar after a challenge against his release failed, despite concerns raised by experts involved in the process. Iqbal was among four men convicted over a proposed attack against a Territorial Army base using a bomb attached to a remote-control car.
Four men have been sentenced for their part in a plot to detonate a bomb at a Territorial Army (TA) base. Two of them, Zahid Iqbal, 31, and Mohammed Sharfaraz Ahmed, 25, who wanted to guide a bomb mounted onto a remote-controlled toy car into the base, have been sentenced to life in prison.
During the investigation, members of the group discussed material from an online al-Qaeda publication titled “How to make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom — by the al-Qaeda chef”. Iqbal, identified as one of the leading figures in the group, received a life sentence with a minimum term of 11 years and three months, alongside an extended licence period.
Questions were previously raised over whether he communicated with extremists while outside prison during an earlier parole period. Recordings of the men, heard in court, revealed Iqbal suggesting attaching the IED to a remote-controlled toy car and sending it under an entrance gate at a TA centre.
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