{"id":201874,"date":"2020-02-03T08:53:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T08:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=201874"},"modified":"2020-02-05T06:48:26","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T06:48:26","slug":"officials-were-warned-in-december-against-freeing-terrorist-sudesh-amman-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=201874","title":{"rendered":"Officials were warned in DECEMBER against freeing terrorist Sudesh Amman"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Sudesh Amman, 20, was shot dead by police on Sunday after a knife rampage in Streatham, South London<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>He was jailed for more than 3 years for terror offences in December 2018 and released a week before attack<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Detectives searching two residential addresses &#8211; one in South London and the other in Bishop&#8217;s Stortford<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Attack raises questions over supervision of freed terrorists and whether they should face tougher sentences<\/strong><\/span><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_201875\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/police-shoot-dead-machette-weilding-terrorist-in-Streatham-South-London.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-201875\" class=\"wp-image-201875\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/police-shoot-dead-machette-weilding-terrorist-in-Streatham-South-London-768x433.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/police-shoot-dead-machette-weilding-terrorist-in-Streatham-South-London-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/police-shoot-dead-machette-weilding-terrorist-in-Streatham-South-London-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/police-shoot-dead-machette-weilding-terrorist-in-Streatham-South-London.jpg 962w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-201875\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police shoot dead machette weilding terrorist in Streatham, South London. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Danyal Hussein \u2013 Mail Online Feb 3, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A think tank warned two months ago that terrorist Sudesh Amman was up for early release, before he was eventually freed last week and launched a bloody knife rampage in London yesterday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The 20-year-old extremist was shot dead by officers in Streatham, South London &#8211; a mile from his bail hostel &#8211; on Sunday afternoon at about 2pm after he went on a horrific rampage, stabbing two people.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_201877\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Sudesh_Amman_20_from_Harrow_in_North_West.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-201877\" class=\"wp-image-201877\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Sudesh_Amman_20_from_Harrow_in_North_West-768x815.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Sudesh_Amman_20_from_Harrow_in_North_West-768x815.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Sudesh_Amman_20_from_Harrow_in_North_West-283x300.jpg 283w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Sudesh_Amman_20_from_Harrow_in_North_West.jpg 962w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-201877\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sudesh Amman. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Amman had been jailed for three years and four months in December 2018, when he pleaded guilty to possessing and distributing terrorist documents including bomb making manuals and knife fighting guides. But he was released automatically just days ago, despite fears he still held extremist views, paving the way for his attack.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Metropolitan Police officers were seen overnight combing through a bail hostel in Streatham, where Amman is believed to have lived following his automatic early release from prison.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Detectives from the Counter Terrorism Command said they were searching two residential addresses &#8211; one in South London and the other nearly 40 miles away in the Hertfordshire market town of Bishop&#8217;s Stortford.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">No arrests have been made.\u00a0Amman\u2019s terrifying attack has raised disturbing questions about the supervision of freed terrorists and whether they should face tougher sentences and more stringent monitoring.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a review in December into the licence conditions of 74 terrorists who had been let out of jail early, following the London Bridge atrocity by convicted terrorist Usman Khan on\u00a0November 29.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Henry Jackson Society has now revealed that it identified Amman in December as an extremist close to automatic early release, warning he was still too dangerous to be freed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The think tank included Amman as part of a &#8216;new wave of released terrorists&#8217; in the wake of the London Bridge attack where Khan stabbed Cambridge University graduates Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones to death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A Whitehall source claimed he was released despite concerns because the law didn&#8217;t give them the power to keep him in jail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Residents at the bail hostel where he was believed to have been staying claim he had previously tried to take his life and had been asking for medication.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Speaking after Amman was named as the attacker, Henry Jackson Society fellow Dr Paul Stott said: &#8216;We need an immediate moratorium on the release of terrorist prisoners, whilst the government reviews each individual case.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Yesterday, while being under active police surveillance and &#8216;very stringent licencing conditions&#8217;, he launched a horrific knife rampage in Streatham, leaving one man in a life-threatening condition, though he later recovered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Wearing a fake suicide vest, Amman stole a 10-inch, \u00a33.99 blade from a convenience store and stabbed the man, in his 40s, in the stomach before knifing a female cyclist, in her 50s, in the back as he ran down the street.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Armed police were on the scene within minutes, having been following him because they suspected he was going to launch a terrorist attack imminently. After he failed to stop, Amman was shot dead outside a Boots chemist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-7959281\/Officials-warned-DECEMBER-against-freeing-terrorist-Sudesh-Amman-early.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The knifeman who went on the rampage in South London and was shot dead by police, had recently been released from jail \u2013 despite warnings he was dangerous <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-london_terror_attacks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201874"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201880,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201874\/revisions\/201880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}