Hardline Islamist Abu Qatada cannot be deported to Jordan because it would be a "flagrant denial of justice", European judges have ruled.
The liberal European court has said a Jordanian cannot be deported from UK because of his 'human rights' despite being a murdering terrorist scum!
Sorry, terrorists are not human, how can they deserve human rights?????
The scum bag was being deported back to Jordan on orders of British government!
David Cameron and his government have pushed for him to be kicked out but the Islamists went to European court & appealed! yes they certainly know where to go.
The UK is thankfully moving away from Europe, so my message to David Cameron is.....
can he please hurry & speed up the process & break completely from Europe & tear up ALL European laws which are designed to protect our enemies!
I'M CONFUSED - Abu says he will be toured if returned to Jordan - at the risk of sounding insensitive - why should we care if a terrorists is tortured - thats exactly what terrorists do to - torture people - Ahh.... but in the name of a "religion".....
Europe stop appeasing Islam - Islam is the ""modern day"" Nazism.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) said returning Qatada to his home country could result in evidence obtained by torture being used against him, which would be a breach of his right to a fair trial.
An ECHR spokesman said: "In the absence of any assurance by Jordan that torture evidence would not be used against Mr Othman, the court therefore concluded that his deportation to Jordan to be retried would give rise to a flagrant denial of justice."
The Government can make one final appeal against the judgment before it becomes binding in three months' time.
Home Secretary Theresa May expressed disappointment at the ruling but insisted it was not the "end of the road" and that Qatada, also known as Omar Othman, would remain in detention while "all the legal options available" are examined.
Qatada, 51, previously described as "Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe", is wanted on terrorism charges in several countries and is currently being held at Long Lartin high-security prison in Worcestershire.
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| Abu Qatada is fighting extradition to Jordan |
In 2000, he was convicted in his absence in his native Jordan of being involved in a millennium bomb plot.
He was remanded in custody for breaching his bail agreement in 2008 and the British authorities began attempts to deport him.
In a landmark judgment in 2009, five Law Lords unanimously backed its policy of expelling terror suspects on the basis of assurances from foreign governments.
But Qatada appealed to the ECHR in Strasbourg, claiming he would be tortured if he was sent home.
European judges have now agreed with Britain's Court of Appeal, which held there were reasonable grounds he would not receive a fair trial.
Their ruling said: "The court found that torture was widespread in Jordan, as was the use of torture evidence by the Jordanian courts.
"The court also found that, in relation to each of the two terrorist conspiracies charged against Mr Othman, the evidence of his involvement had been obtained by torturing one of his co-defendants.
"When those two co-defendants stood trial, the Jordanian courts had not taken any action in relation to their complaints of torture.
"The court agreed with Siac [the Special Immigration Appeals Commission] that there was a high probability that the incriminating evidence would be admitted at Mr Othman's retrial and that it would be of considerable, perhaps decisive, importance."
A "memorandum of understanding" stating Jordan will not use torture on anyone deported from the UK does not exist between the two countries.
The ECHR also announced a key ruling in which it upheld the whole-life sentences being served by three convicted British killers.
Jeremy Bamber, Peter Moore and Douglas Vinter had argued that a sentence which condemns them to die in prison amounts to a breach of articles three, five and seven of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Their legal team claimed that any sentence where the prisoner's rehabilitation does not lead to review amounts to "inhumane or degrading treatment".
But the court held whole-life tariffs are not "grossly disproportionate" and noted that in each case the High Court had "decided that an all-life tariff was required, relatively recently and following a fair and detailed consideration".
Bamber was jailed for killing his father, mother, sister and her twin sons in 1985.
Moore, dubbed the "man in black", was given a whole life sentence for mutilating and killing four men in the mid-nineties.
Vinter was convicted of stabbing his wife to death - three years after being released from jail for another murder.
The Ministry of Justice "strongly" welcomed the ruling but it was attacked by Bamber in a statement released by his supporters.
He said: "If the state wishes to have a death penalty, then they should be honest and re-introduce hanging. Instead, this political decision that I must die in jail is the death penalty using old age or infirmity as the method.
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| Jeremy Bamber, pictured at the funeral of his family members in 1985 |
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