Soft On Terrorists

The ex public schoolboy Isa Iprahim was convicted yesterday of making an explosive with intent to endanger life, In his flat police found ingredients for concocting a bomb,  detonators and a crude effort at producing a suicide bombers vest. Videos shot on a mobile phone show him experimenting with explosives, when he was arrested his hands and legs were covered in cuts and abrasions consistent with being exposed to explosions. The heroin addict changed his name from Andrew to Isa when he converted to Islam in 2005, and was radicalised listening to the rants of banned preachers like Abu Hamza on the internet. CCTV showed him on a reconnaissance mission to a Bristol shopping centre where he made notes in one referring to a  “ a dense food area full of diners”. police are convinced he planned an attack there. Iprahim was arrested at a Doctors surgery while collecting a prescription for methadone a heroin substitute, he had been on drugs since he was 12.  Though he admitted in court to making explosives he claimed he would not have carried out any attacks, the jury did not believe him and he was found guilty. The judge gave him an indeterminate sentence and said he should serve at least 10 years, Iprahim is 20 years old in ten years he will only be 30 and probably a worse risk than he is now, in the face of all this evidence and a conviction, what a pathetic sentence.  He should have been given life with at  a 30 year recommendation, the only reason this man is not a mass murderer is because he was caught before he could carry out his attack. Once again our judicial system when we need it to send a message lets us down.