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| Erol Incedal terror case gagging order upheld | |
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| The Court of Appeal has upheld an unprecedented gagging order preventing the media reporting why a terrorism suspect was cleared at trial. | The Court of Appeal has upheld an unprecedented gagging order preventing the media reporting why a terrorism suspect was cleared at trial. |
| London student Erol Incedal was found not guilty in March last year of preparing for acts of terrorism. | London student Erol Incedal was found not guilty in March last year of preparing for acts of terrorism. |
| Senior judges said it was right that the full details of the Old Bailey case remained secret. | |
| The BBC and other media organisations challenged the reporting restrictions imposed by the trial judge. | The BBC and other media organisations challenged the reporting restrictions imposed by the trial judge. |
| Only 10 of the almost 70 hours of evidence were heard in open court. | |
| Specially accredited journalists were allowed to hear some of the secret evidence in locked sessions, but they were banned from telling others what they had seen or heard. | |
| More than a third of the prosecution was heard in complete secrecy with the jury told they could face jail if they ever revealed what they had heard. | |
| The trial we couldn't report (March 2015) | |
| 'Person of significance' | |
| Incedal faced two trials in relation to allegations that he was involved in some form of terrorism that appeared to relate to Syria. | |
| At the end of the first trial in 2014, he was convicted of possessing bomb-making plans and he was later jailed for 42 months for that offence. | |
| But the jury could not reach a verdict on the second allegation that he was involved in actual preparations for terrorism. The jury at his second trial acquitted him in March 2015 of the allegation. | |
| During the small amount of evidence heard in open court, prosecutors alleged that Incedal had been in contact with a British jihadist in Syria, that he had an address linked to Tony and Cherie Blair and that he had discussed - in code - gun attacks. | |
| Prosecutors said that a "person of significance" could have been the target for an alleged plan - but at no point did they explicitly link that in open court to the Blairs. |