Daily Mail
January 3, 2014
Two border officials sacked over their alleged links to Islamist terrorists are suing the Government at the European Court of Human Rights.
Kashif Tariq was suspended by the Home Office because of his cousin’s involvement in a transatlantic bomb plot.
Bilal Gulamhussein was taken off duty because he was accused of being a ‘close associate’ of alleged insurgents fighting British troops in Iraq during the British occupation.
The pair had their security clearances revoked but Government lawyers used controversial ‘secret courts’ rules to stop them seeing the key evidence against them.
Now they are claiming their rights to fair hearings were breached and have launched proceedings against the UK.
Last night Tory MP Dominic Raab, a former Foreign Office lawyer, told The Mail on Sunday: ‘These individuals have enjoyed a series of appeals under the British justice system.
‘It is a perverse waste of UK taxpayers’ money for these cases now to join the Strasbourg merry-go-round.’
Mr Tariq, 34, worked in Ports-mouth removing illegal immigrants. He was suspended from his post on basic pay in 2006 when his brother and cousin were arrested ‘during a major counter-terrorism investigation into a suspected plot to mount a terrorist attack on transatlantic flights’.
His brother was never charged but his cousin, Tanvir Hussain, was jailed for at least 32 years in 2009 for his role in the liquid bomb plot.