Officials in shattered, staggering, dhimmi Britain are still far more concerned about the rights of Islamic jihad mass murderers than they are about the rights of their victims, have to secure that Muslim vote, of course, but in this case they were shamed into doing the right thing.
An update on this story. “ISIS ‘Beatles’ WILL be tried in US over beheading of British and American captives in Syria after Supreme Court overturned ‘shocking’ ruling that stopped UK sharing vital evidence with America,” by Mark Duell and Dan Sales, Mailonline, August 26, 2020 (thanks to Inexion):
The ISIS ‘Beatles’ will finally face trial in the US over the beheading of British and American captives in Syria after the Supreme Court in London overturned a ruling that stopped the UK sharing vital evidence with America.
Alexanda Kotey, 36, and El-Shafee El-Sheikh, 32, are accused of being members of the terror cell named after the Liverpudlian band by their captives which was behind the beheading of two British aid workers and two US journalists.
But a ruling at the Supreme Court in London this morning overturned a ban on the Home Office and UK Government sending evidence over to the US – meaning the duo could spend the rest of their lives in a maximum security prison in America.
The court’s initial judgement on data protection had said providing evidence for criminal proceedings where they could be executed breached their human rights.
The court had ruled after El-Sheikh’s mother Maha Elgizouli challenged the then home secretary Savid Javid’s initial decision to share the information in the case.
She believes her son should face justice but that any trial should take place in the UK, but the new development means Britain can now share information with the US.
Prosecutors in the US initially planned to seek Kotey and El-Sheikh’s execution – and the British government want the pair prosecuted in the US, where it is thought there is a more realistic chance of prosecution than in UK.
But the Supreme Court ruled earlier this year that Britain could not provide any assistance to US investigators when the threat of death hung over the two men.
Last week US Attorney General Bill Barr said capital punishment could be dropped in any cases against them in an effort to pave the way for the men – currently being held in military detention in Iraq – to finally face justice and stand trial in the US.
He set a two-month deadline for any transfer of evidence to begin or the pair would face justice in Iraq, where ISIS fighters are sentenced to hang after five-minute hearings….