Judge rejects bid for private prosecution against two suspected terrorists

Published on 05/10/2012 00:00

A SECOND bid to bring a private prosecution against two suspected terrorists to keep them in the UK has been rejected by a district judge.

Businessman Karl Watkin, a campaigner against the UK’s extradition arrangements with the United States, wanted to prosecute Babar Ahmad and Syed Ahsan for solicitation to murder.

But Howard Riddle, sitting at Westminster Magistrates’ Court, refused the application. He said: “The application is an abuse of the process of the court. I am satisfied that it is not in the interests of justice to issue these proceedings.”