Ahmad suffered 73 injuries in ‘ferocious’ assault at hands of Met police before being imprisoned without trial for eight years
This article is the subject of a legal complaint made on behalf of four former TSG officers including Mark Jones and Jon Donohue. They wish to make clear that they were not party to Mr Ahmad’s civil claim against the MPS and the settlement (in 2009) was agreed without reference to them. They have always strenuously denied and continue to deny the allegations against them. In addition, they were defendants in a criminal prosecution, based on Mr Ahmad’s allegations, and were acquitted following trial in 2011. The officers were also found to have no case to answer with regards to misconduct allegations
A British man who suffered 73 injuries after being arrested by anti-terrorist police has called on the Metropolitan police commissioner to apologise for the actions of his men.
Babar Ahmad, 41, who won a court case against the Met and £60,000 in damages, says that during the “ferocious” assault in 2003 he thought he was going to die. He was released a few days later after the Crown Prosecution Service ruled that there was no evidence of any terrorism offence. But in 2004 he was imprisoned in the UK without trial for eight years following an extradition request from the Americans. In 2012 he was deported to face trial in Connecticut.
Related: The trials of Babar Ahmad: from jihad in Bosnia to a US prison via Met brutality
Continue reading...