Terror suspect Abu Qatada can be deported to Jordan after the Government received the assurances it needed to ensure his deportation was lawful, Home Secretary Theresa May said on Tuesday.
May said the radical cleric "deserves to face justice" in Jordan but warned that successive governments have been trying to deport him for 10 years and it may still take some time before he can be put on a plane.
But the home secretary said: "We now have the material we need to satisfy the courts and continue with deportation."
PICTURES: Scroll down for images of Abu Qatada being arrested
May warned any appeal by Qatada could take "many months", but added it would have to be based on "narrow grounds" and the Government has confidence in its "eventual success".
"We can soon put Qatada on a plane and get him out of our country for good," she said.
Europe's human rights judges have ruled that Qatada cannot be deported to Jordan without assurances that evidence gained through torture will not be used in his terror trial.
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Lawyers for the Home Secretary will need to convince the commission that it has secured the assurances before Qatada can be deported.
The earliest he could be deported is April 30, it is understood.
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But Qatada's legal team could still appeal, possibly even taking the case back to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) before he could be put on a plane in a process which could take months.
The Strasbourg-based court found that sending Qatada, 51, back without such assurances would be a "flagrant denial of justice".
Qatada, also known as Omar Othman, was convicted in his absence in Jordan of involvement with terror attacks in 1998 and now faces a retrial in his home country.
He has also featured in hate sermons found on videos in the flat of one of the September 11 bombers.
Since 2001, when fears of the domestic terror threat rose in the aftermath of the attacks, he has challenged, and ultimately thwarted, every attempt by the Government to detain and deport him.
PICTURES: Qatada being arrested in North London on Tuesday:
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Terror suspect Abu Qatada can be deported to Jordan after the Government received the assurances it needed to ensure his deportation was lawful, Home Secretary Theresa May said on Tuesday.
May said...
Terror suspect Abu Qatada can be deported to Jordan after the Government received the assurances it needed to ensure his deportation was lawful, Home Secretary Theresa May said on Tuesday.
May said...
just get rid of the hate preacher against uk and u.s...and he takes all the benefits off us...bye bye blackbeard...oh` i forgot he may get parole now with the dogooder lawyers? maybe he`ll hang on here for another 6 month? hope not.... see ya scruffy
songster: just get rid of the hate preacher against uk and
Hang on a minute. If the man has committed crimes while living in this country over the last 20 or so years, is our own Judicial process so deficient that he can't be prosecuted here? What phobia has the British Government got in trying Terror suspect in their own courts? If he is so dangerous, and if his supposed links to terror have been fostered and expanded while living in the UK, then he quite obviously committed crimes on UK soil - if that is the case, then try him here. The UK are getting good at passing the buck and outsourcing Terror cases to other countries!
Knighthawks: Hang on a minute. If the man has committed crimes
Just heard on the news he is going to appeal , could take up to a year.WHY!!! get him and his family out now, if he is going to stay ,stop giving them hand outs NOW. makes me so mad. anyway must go got to go to work to pay my taxes to keep this traitors,
junenorris: Just heard on the news he is going to appeal
Why do you keep removing my comment, he is a Terrorist baying for western blood, so should be kicked out and if he likes torturing innocent souls, perhaps he should be given some of his own medicine, he wont shout so loud then. I am only saying whay everyone else is thinking.
mike1963: Why do you keep removing my comment, he is a
STOP the talk, get him and all his followers on a plan and get him the hell back to where he came from. do it NOW. and please can this broken country stop giving our hard earned money to these radical spongers. our taxes should go to our needy old folk. my dad worked all his life and paid his dues never lived as well Abu if that is his name.and send his family with him.
junenorris: STOP the talk, get him and all his followers on
if Theresa May is that confident the assurances received from Jordan will satisfy the Stasbourg court, why doesn;t she just put him on a plane and tell the court to go get stuffed.
the conservatives said they were going to sort all this out,to date they have only kissed the backsides of their Liberal partners ,who refuse to have anything to do with redrawing this useless Human rights act, which is just a free lunch for overpaid judges and lawyers plus a get out of jail card for terrorists and murderers.
I will definately be voting Ukip
backbender: if Theresa May is that confident the assurances received from
As I understand he arrived in Britain some 20yrs ago on a forged passport...Should have kicked him out then! Since then he has not worked and the tax payer has kept him and his family in a home. DEPORT ANY ONE who is not a UK citizen if they commit a crime and save the UK tax payer having to house them or pay the ten of thousands that it cost to look after them in prison!
sskryten: As I understand he arrived in Britain some 20yrs ago
Perfect answer, he hates the western world but takes every benefit the western world has to offer, shouts a good fight but to scared to go back to his native land, because they are not as soft as Broken Britain.
mike1963: Perfect answer, he hates the western world but takes every
Why don't the british government just stick him on a plane today in the interests of national security? and tell the ECHR to ram it?? The ECHR just serves to protect terrorist activities, as proven here. In any instance he should be kept over on the european mainland as they have the - funds, storage facilities and the overall ultimate decision over him being held.
stix158: Why don't the british government just stick him on a
Of course he should deported. Who cares about his human rights. He has been an influential terrorist for many years who would happily kill your & my friends in the name of I slam. Human Rights in this country has got out of control. We bend over backwards to help these adult yobs. Put him on a plane to anywhere who will not be kind to him
Krumble: Of course he should deported. Who cares about his human
Gwynfryn
The sheer hypocrisy of Yvette Cooper in Parliament today beggars belief.
For years when the last Labour government, of which she was a member, were in power and were warned repeatedly about their lax attitude towards extremists being welcomed into the country.
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None of this would have happened in the first place if Qatada had not been given asylum
by the last Tory Government. It was known then what he was.
torkinking: Gwynfryn The sheer hypocrisy of Yvette Cooper in Parliament today
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