Boris Johnson indicates immense need for tougher anti-terror laws in Britain

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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London Mayor Boris Johnson has indicated an immense need for tougher anti-terror laws in Britain after a terror suspect escaped from surveillance disguising in a burka.

London Mayor, security experts and senior MPs raised their concerns regarding the Government’s flagship Terrorism Prevention and investigation measures known as TPims, after Mohammed Ahmed Mohamed, 27, becomes the second suspect under a so-called TPim order to go missing within a year.

Somali-born Mr. Mohamed said to have entered a mosque in Acton, west London on Friday dressed as a man in western-style dress, but was seen on CCTV leaving the place with his face and body fully covered in burka.

Earlier, during last December, Ibrahim Magag had disappeared absconding in a black cab after ripping off his electronic tag.

Mr. Mohamed has been linked to the Somali militant group al-Shabab. He was subject to a TPim notice, which is aimed at protecting the public from people the home secretary Theresa May believes to have engaged in terrorism-related activity but who it is not deemed feasible to prosecute or deport.

Mr. Johnson told Tpims were “plainly not working in the way we’d like” and insisted Mrs. May to adopt tighter measures to control the amount of risk Britain is posed to.

He has stressed Mohamed was “dangerous” and must have had accomplices to flee, even if he did not pose an “immediate threat” to the U.K.

While Mrs. May has that missing terror suspect does not pose a “direct threat to the public in the U.K.”

Mrs. May has told the House of Commons: “The police and Security Service have confirmed that they do not believe that this man poses a direct threat to the public in the UK. The reason he was put on a Tpim in the first place was to prevent his travel to support terrorism overseas.”

Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper has responded that even though Ms. May said Mr. Mohamed was no threat; still he had “attended terror training camps” which makes him dangerous.

Ms. Cooper has insisted that changes to controls on suspects had made it easier for the suspects to flee.

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