Stephen Timms Al-Qaeda inspired knife attacker could walk free in months

• News
• UK News
• Stephen Timms

Al-Qaeda inspired Roshonara Choudhry could beryllium walking the streets wrong months aft being jailed for 15 years for her room weapon onslaught connected Labour curate Stephen Timms

Roshonara Choudhry tried to execution Stephen Timms with a weapon 15 years ago(Image: PA)

THE jihadist who stabbed Labour curate Stephen Timms is making a caller bid for freedom.

Roshonara Choudhry had been radicalised erstwhile she was a assemblage student, and attempted to execution her section MP successful 2010. She was jailed for beingness astatine the Old Bailey but has present passed the minimum 15-year condemnation imposed. Now 36, her latest exertion for parole is her 2nd and she could beryllium walking the streets successful months.

Last nighttime coercion experts said she inactive poses a risk. Colonel Richard Kemp, the Army’s erstwhile main successful Afghanistan, told us: “This idiosyncratic is highly dangerous. I americium earnestly acrophobic she has not changed her ways. She manipulated those astir her to the constituent she was capable to motorboat specified a horrendous attack. I fearfulness she tin ne'er beryllium reformed properly.”

Weeks earlier trying to termination Mr Timms connected May 14, 2010, Choudhry had discontinue her English grade people astatine King’s College London, wherever she had been expected to get a first. The Muslim, past 21, became radicalised aft watching online sermons by panic preachers and decided to termination Mr Timms due to the fact that helium supported the Iraq war.

Stephen was stabbed successful the tummy successful 2010 (Image: Sunday Mirror)

Choudhry stabbed the East Ham MP doubly successful the tummy with a three-inch room weapon arsenic she smiled and pretended to shingle his manus astatine his constituency surgery. An adjutant and a information defender stopped her and exigency country saved Mr Timms, past 55, whose liver was sliced.

After being charged, Choudhry refused to spot family, friends oregon person visitors, and isolated herself successful prison. The justice astatine her proceedings said she would proceed to beryllium a information to MPs aft proceeding she had listed those who voted for the Iraq war, adding: “You bash not endure from immoderate intelligence disease. You person simply committed evil acts coolly and deliberately.”

Mr Timms said later: “My existent interest is that a precise agleam young pistillate with everything to unrecorded for would scope the decision that she should propulsion it each distant by attempting to termination the section MP.”

The Mirror beforehand leafage reporting the fearfulness attack

A study into her clip successful situation said she had not raised immoderate concerns and had attended anti-extremism courses. In 2023 the past Justice Secretary Dominic Raab refused a Parole Board proposal to determination her to an unfastened prison. The adjacent parole sheet could determine to escaped her oregon determination her to an unfastened jail.

A spokesperson for the committee said: “The reappraisal has been directed to an oral proceeding but determination is nary day yet.” A root added: “As this is the 2nd attempt, determination are fears she volition beryllium released. Nobody could spot what she was planning, that shows however manipulative she was.”

Mr Timms, 69, present curate for societal information and disability, has revealed Choudhry had written to him respective times from jail. In a erstwhile interview, helium explained: “In the 3rd of them, she says she’s atrocious astir what happened. So we’re successful a restorative justness process which whitethorn pb to maine gathering her earlier she’s released. I’d invited that.”