Terror suspect won't be sent back to prison

A bid by the Government to send a former Belmarsh terror suspect back to prison failed today.

Home Secretary Charles Clarke had claimed the 35-year-old Algerian breached bail conditions after he was let out of jail last year.

He said the man, under house arrest because of suspected links with al Qaeda, staged an unauthorised meeting with suspicious men at his home last November.

But Mr Justice Collins, sitting at the Special Immigration Appeals Commission, ruled Mr Clarke had not proved a breach "to the necessary standard".

The detainee, known only as G, is the only man held under the anti-terror law to be kept under house arrest. He was released from Belmarsh jail last April after a mental breakdown.

The judge said that in the circumstances the special commissions would "take no action towards revocation of bail".

But the tribunal, he said, was giving G the benefit of the doubt despite evidence from a closed session leaving them with "the gravest of suspicions" there had been unauthorised visitors.