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UK: Tracked by MI5 to PC World: How judges and Theresa May deemed London minicab driver ‘very highly probably’ an Al Qaeda courier

22 January 2016

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"A London minicab driver who arrived in Britain from Afghanistan as an unaccompanied minor 12 years ago is now highly likely to be an Islamist extremist and a threat to national security, judges have ruled.

The 27 year old, known only as M2, had his British citizenship stripped by Theresa May in 2014 after being tracked by MI5 but re-entered the UK just months later. He is currently living in a west London flat under special bail conditions.

He had appealed the Home Secretary’s decision but judges at the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Siac) have now ruled that under the civil burden of proof, it is “very highly probable that [he] is an Islamist extremist” who has “engaged in terrorist related activities” by acting as a courier for an “important” al Qaeda commander in Afghanistan."

See the story: Tracked by MI5 to PC World: How judges and Theresa May deemed London minicab driver ‘very highly probably’ an Al Qaeda courier (The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, link)

And see: Special Immigration Appeals Commission judgment: Appeal No SC/124/2014 between: M2 and The Secretary of State for the Home Department (pdf)

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