Saajid Muhammad Badat, 33 from Gloucester, was jailed for 13 years in 2005 but had his sentence cut down to 11 years after providing information on up to 18 terror plots over a six-year period.The deal with police and Crown Prosecution Service has been kept secret for more than two years to protect his safety. It means the convicted terrorist has been on the streets since March 2010 without the public being told.
Badat's release was only disclosed because his evidence at a US trial that began yesterday about a plot to carry out a 7/7-style attack on the New York subway is to be made public.
Badat, who had been trained by al-Qaeda in Afghanistan with the shoebomber Richard Reid, was supposed to board a flight at Christmas 2001.
But he pulled out at the last minute and hid the explosive device under his bed at his parents’ home in Gloucester. Read More
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