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Could it be the end for control orders?
Control orders – which mean suspects can be kept under virtual house arrest without any trial by jury – could be scrapped by the Coalition government, writes Gary Gibbon.
Control orders – which mean suspects can be kept under virtual house arrest without any trial by jury – could be scrapped by the Coalition government, writes Gary Gibbon.
When I was a cub reporter in 1974, even when the IRA was on the loose, bombing Britain’s streets, the number of cases held “in camera” in mainland Britain numbered one or two – in the main, they were spy cases. Very occasionally specific elements of a case – the name of an agent or…
The suggestion by Stella Rimington – the less seen but often heard former head of MI5 – in an obscure Spanish paper that the UK was eroding civil liberties is not her first such claim. Indeed back in October she talked of the “huge over-reaction” to 9/11. Well, this week I have been informed by…