Mental health terrorist on the loose

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6056168.stm

I seem to recall the guy who gave the police the lowdown on the Forest Gate brothers being incarcerated for being mentally unhinged. Could this be him?

Article:

A terror suspect under a control order has escaped from a mental health unit and is on the run, the BBC has learned.
The man, accused by the authorities of wanting to go to Iraq to fight, has been missing for the past fortnight.

In March, the suspect, who cannot be named, became one of six British citizens to be placed under an order.

The man escaped through a window from the mental health unit of a hospital in London two weeks ago, having been placed there under mental health laws.

After the order was imposed in March, the man initially had to report to police daily and surrender his passport. His family are concerned for his safety and are appealing for his return to fight the allegations against him.

The Home Office said: "We do not comment on individual control order cases. Any breach would be investigated on a case by case basis."

Control orders were brought in for cases where there was not enough evidence for a criminal prosecution.

'Extraordinary'

When placed under them, terror suspects can be tagged, confined to their homes and banned from communicating with others.

Shadow Home Secretary David Davis described the case of the missing suspect as "extraordinary".

He said: "The government justified control orders on the basis of protecting the public from potentially dangerous terrorists.

"It is therefore hard to understand how this man was allowed to escape, especially while under going psychiatric assessment."