'WHY RELEASE THEM?'
Piers Morgan slams ‘utterly ridiculous’ release of Streatham attacker Sudesh Amman after just half his terror sentence
PIERS Morgan has today slammed the “utterly ridiculous” release of a jihadi knifeman who stabbed two people in crazed terror attack yesterday afternoon.
The Good Morning Britain presenter begged to know why terrorists are being released from prison after Sudesh Amman, 20, knifed an innocent man and woman in Streatham, South London.
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The 20-year-old was being monitored by counter-terror cops before he went on a rampage on Streatham High Road just before 2pm.
Amman, from Harrow, North London, was sentenced to more than three years in jail for committing terror offences but let out on automatic release after serving half his sentence just a week ago - despite concerns he still held extremist views.
Piers said this morning: “What are we doing releasing them?
“Like I keep saying, we keep over 70 prisoners in with life without any tariff.
“The monsters that killed Lee Rigby, for example, will never come out of prison, because they did an act not dissimilar to this.
"UTTERLY RIDICULOUS"
“What’s the difference between what those killers did?
“Why is Lee Rigby’s life considered to be worth more than the poor woman that was stabbed in the back on Streatham High Road?
“Lee Rigby was an incredibly brave man who served his county and his death was an outrage.
“But his killers will never come out of prison.
“The jihadi last night, had he survived this attack, you could absolutely bet your life he would have been let out at some stage again.
“It is utterly ridiculous, it’s ridiculous.”
Boris Johnson was furious last night and demanded to know why he was released from jail and has vowed to crack down on sick terror offenders.
What are we doing releasing them? The jihadi last night, had he survived this attack, you could absolutely bet your life he would have been let out at some stage again. It is utterly ridiculous, it’s ridiculous.
Piers Morgan
The PM wants to know why the twisted knifeman served only half his three year jail term and he will today announce new plans on how to deal with brainwashed jihadis.
Amman was reportedly included in The Henry Jackson Society's “new wave of released terrorists” list following last year's London Bridge attack where convicted terrorist Usman Khan stabbed Cambridge University graduates Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones to death in a knife rampage.
ISIS-supporting jihadi Amman, who was only a teenager when arrested, was jailed in December 2018 for possessing and distributing terrorist documents.
He also shared an Al-Qaeda magazine in his family WhatsApp group and told his siblings "the Islamic State is here to stay", the Old Bailey heard.
JAILED JIHADI
Alexis Boon, then head of the Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command, said at the time of his conviction that Amman had a "fierce interest in violence and martyrdom", the Telegraph reports.
He explained: “His fascination with dying in the name of terrorism was clear in a notepad we recovered from his home.
"Amman had scrawled his ‘life goals’ in the notepad and top of the list, above family activities, was dying a martyr and going to ‘Jannah’ - the afterlife."
A Whitehall source said Amman was released early because there was nothing the authorities could do under existing laws to keep him behind bars.
He was put under the most stringent licensing terms and hence why police were on the scene so quickly after the attack.
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In dramatic footage captured in the moments after the attack, undercover officers in plain clothes appear out of nowhere and swoop in on Amman as he lies gunned down on the pavement.
Seconds later, in scenes straight out of an action movie, another cop in plain clothes leaps off a motorbike as the expert team surround the jihadi, in footage captured by a passenger on a bus.
The Met Police later said that three people were injured in the attack but one has since been discharged from hospital.
A man is in his 40s was initially considered to be in a life-threatening condition but this is no longer the case.
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