Post by mouse on Oct 10, 2016 6:09:46 GMT -5
from todays express
The Egyptian-born cleric, 58, was branded “evil” by a judge in New York in January last year as she jailed him for life, without the possibility of parole, for 11 offences.
They included hostage-taking in Yemen in 1998 that left three Britons and an Australian dead, and plotting to set up a terrorism training camp in the US. The father-of-eight’s trial took placeafter an eight-year legal battle to extradite him to the US that cost British taxpayers £25million as well as £3million in benefits, which included housing.
The family lived in a state-funded £1.25million home in west London
Hate preacher Abu Hamza jailed for life for supporting terrorism
Briton faces jail after trying to set up terror training camp on...
There is a strong humanitarian case that it would be better for him on health grounds to be incarcerated there
Lindsay Lewis
After being moved to a maximum security jail in Colorado earlier this year, lawyers acting for Hamza, who lost both hands and an eye while “working with explosives”, have started preparing his legal bid to return to Britain.
His lawyer Lindsay Lewis confirmed that he will appeal to the European Court of Human Rights to be extradited to the UK early next year.
She said: “There is a strong humanitarian case that it would be better for him on health grounds to be incarcerated there.
"It is also extremely unfair his family is not able to visit him in the United States.
Lawyers started a legal bid for Hamza to return to the UK while he was in a Colorado jail
“I am continuing to litigate the conditions of his imprisonment here, which I believe run foul of promises made by the US government. They are not meeting his needs. It would be appropriate for him to return to the UK, where his family is and where his conditions would be far better.”
Hamza’s bid to serve his life term in a “softer” British prison comes days after Home Secretary Amber Rudd announced a crackdown on “unduly lenient” sentences for hate preachers and those supporting terror groups.
It also follows his transfer earlier this year to a 7ft by 12ft cell at America’s “escape-proof” supermax prison in remote Florence, Colorado, where he is in solitary confinement.
The Egyptian-born cleric, 58, was branded “evil” by a judge in New York in January last year as she jailed him for life, without the possibility of parole, for 11 offences.
They included hostage-taking in Yemen in 1998 that left three Britons and an Australian dead, and plotting to set up a terrorism training camp in the US. The father-of-eight’s trial took placeafter an eight-year legal battle to extradite him to the US that cost British taxpayers £25million as well as £3million in benefits, which included housing.
The family lived in a state-funded £1.25million home in west London
Hate preacher Abu Hamza jailed for life for supporting terrorism
Briton faces jail after trying to set up terror training camp on...
There is a strong humanitarian case that it would be better for him on health grounds to be incarcerated there
Lindsay Lewis
After being moved to a maximum security jail in Colorado earlier this year, lawyers acting for Hamza, who lost both hands and an eye while “working with explosives”, have started preparing his legal bid to return to Britain.
His lawyer Lindsay Lewis confirmed that he will appeal to the European Court of Human Rights to be extradited to the UK early next year.
She said: “There is a strong humanitarian case that it would be better for him on health grounds to be incarcerated there.
"It is also extremely unfair his family is not able to visit him in the United States.
Lawyers started a legal bid for Hamza to return to the UK while he was in a Colorado jail
“I am continuing to litigate the conditions of his imprisonment here, which I believe run foul of promises made by the US government. They are not meeting his needs. It would be appropriate for him to return to the UK, where his family is and where his conditions would be far better.”
Hamza’s bid to serve his life term in a “softer” British prison comes days after Home Secretary Amber Rudd announced a crackdown on “unduly lenient” sentences for hate preachers and those supporting terror groups.
It also follows his transfer earlier this year to a 7ft by 12ft cell at America’s “escape-proof” supermax prison in remote Florence, Colorado, where he is in solitary confinement.
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