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| Terror raid pair may sue police | |
| 2006-06-11 | |
| EFL Two men released without charge after an anti-terror raid in east London are to take legal action, it is reported. Abul Koyair, 20, and his brother Mohammed Abdul Kahar, 23, who was shot, will sue the Met, their solicitor Gareth Peirce told the Observer. Other papers speculate the pair, from Forest Gate, could claim up to £500,000 in damages for their ordeal. The police have defended their tactics as the Independent Police Complaints Commission investigates the shooting. The men, who had been held for a week under the Terrorism Act 2000 and questioned on suspicion of terrorism involvement, were released without charge on Friday after police found no trace of a chemical device at their home. Ms Peirce, who is acting for the family, told the Observer the two brothers would now be launching a legal action for damages against the Metropolitan Police. "It will not be enough; the emotional damage will be enormous. In similar cases, some individuals never recover from an incident like this," she said.
"They only realised they were officers when they saw the word 'police' on their backs." According to reports in the Sunday Times and the Sunday Telegraph the brothers could claim up to £500,000 in compensation for Mr Kahar's injuries and for libel damages. Meanwhile the largest of demonstrations on Sunday is expected to take place outside Scotland Yard. Organisations including the The MCB's secretary general Mohammed Abdul Bari, who visited Forest Gate on Saturday, told BBC News he was relieved the men had been freed, but that it was important for Muslims to continue to work with the police. "In 7/7, many of them were blown apart, and one of the girls, Saharia Islam, was a regular worshipper in our mosque, in the East London Mosque, so we are Londoners. And anything happens in London, one-tenth of the population are from the Muslim population, so they are affected." | |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #2 These assholes will be lucky if they don't end up being dragged back into this and prosecuted. Just because they let them go from jail doesn't mean they are through with them. I'm sure they are stepping on everyone they can round up and someone may still squeak. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2006-06-11 14:56 |
| #1 Why am I thinking of Paleo children equiped with toy gu8ns and sent toward an IDF post? |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2006-06-11 08:34 |