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| Terrorists Bourgass and Hussain win prison segregation appeal | Terrorists Bourgass and Hussain win prison segregation appeal |
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| Two convicted terrorists who claimed their prison segregation was unlawful have won their challenge at the UK's highest court. | Two convicted terrorists who claimed their prison segregation was unlawful have won their challenge at the UK's highest court. |
| Kamel Bourgass and Tanvir Hussain were separated from other inmates for up to seven months after being accused of faith-related attacks. | |
| The Court of Appeal rejected the claim but the Supreme Court has overruled it. | The Court of Appeal rejected the claim but the Supreme Court has overruled it. |
| Hussain was jailed for his role in the 2006 airline bomb plot. Bourgass was implicated in a ricin poison plot. | Hussain was jailed for his role in the 2006 airline bomb plot. Bourgass was implicated in a ricin poison plot. |
| The men were kept in solitary confinement after being accused of attacks on other inmates. | |
| But the pair, who both denied the allegations, argued that it was illegal for prison staff to order their segregation for more than 72 hours without permission from ministers. | |
| Secret intelligence | |
| Bourgass, an Algerian, is serving 17 years for his involvement in the 2002 ricin terrorist plot. | |
| He is also serving a life sentence for murdering Detective Constable Stephen Oake with a kitchen knife during his 2003 arrest at a flat in Manchester. | |
| In 2009, while at HMP Whitemoor in Cambridgeshire, authorities feared he was bullying and intimidating fellow prisoners and they recorded "an escalation of violence [in the prison] for faith-related reasons". | |
| He was not charged with an offence - but was placed in segregation for approximately five months. | |
| Hussain was jailed in 2009 for a minimum of 32 years over his role in the 2006 liquid bomb plot - which resulted in immediate worldwide restrictions on passengers carrying liquids in their hand luggage. | |
| While at HMP Frankland in County Durham, he was involved in a serious attack on another prisoner who received wounds to his face and prison intelligence suggested he was playing a wider role in the "conditioning" other vulnerable prisoners. He was kept in solitary confinement from April to October 2010. |