A British-born terrorist, who was jailed for life in 2008 for heading up an al-Qaeda cell that was preparing to commit a massacre in South Africa, has been denied parole.
Rangzieb Ahmed, 47, was the first person in Britain to be convicted of directing terrorism.
In 2008, after being deported from Pakistan, Ahmed was convicted at Manchester Crown Court and jailed for life with a minimum term of 10 years for planning a terror attack with an al-Qaeda cell based in Dubai.
During his trial Ahmed claimed he had been tortured in Pakistan—with the complicity of MI6—by the Inter-Services Intelligence agency, who beat him up and ripped out his fingernails while attempting to obtain information about al-Qaeda….