Keystone Kops drop terror charges against Indian doctor
Australian prosecutors have dropped terror
charges against an Indian doctor over the failed bomb attacks in the
UK.
Dr. Haneef and his wife during happier days in Australia
Australian prosecutors have dropped terror charges against an Indian doctor over the failed bomb attacks in the UK.
Mohamed Haneef had been accused of giving “reckless support” to terrorism by providing a relative in Britain with his mobile phone SIM card.
What?
The messy saga has prompted Peter Beattie, the premier of Queensland and member of the opposition Labour party, to characterise the investigation, and the leaking to the press that has being going on, as like something out of the Keystone Kops.
Prosecutors had claimed that the doctor’s SIM card had been found in the burning car that crashed into Glasgow international airport on 30 June.
But it later emerged the card had actually been found in a flat in Liverpool, some 300km (185 miles) from Glasgow, where his cousin lived.
He left the sim card with family when he left for Australia because there was still credit on it - and he wouldn’t be able to use it in Australia.
Posted: Fri - July 27, 2007 at 09:35 AM