Doctor Haneef wins court case
Mr Haneef was suspected of being involved in the failed bids to car bomb parts parts of the UK
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Friday, 21, Dec 2007 07:44
A doctor suspected of being involved in the failed car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow last summer has won an important court case in Australia.
Mohammed Haneef was arrested six months ago and charged with providing "reckless support" to terrorists involved in the attacks in the UK.
Legal challenges to his permission to work in Australia have only now been lifted even though it emerged that information linking him to the planned attacks was incorrect.
A judge at the federal court of Melbourne has now dismissed the government's appeal against Mr Haneef returning to the country on a work visa.
Former Australian immigration minister Kevin Andrews previously stated that the doctor would not be allowed to work in the country again even though charges against him had been dropped.
The doctor who worked at a hospital in Australia's Gold Coast was arrested from Brisbane airport on July 2nd as he tried to travel to India on a one-way ticket.
He was suspected of being involved in the coordinated attempts to bomb targets in the UK after police erroneously linked him to a mobile phone Sim card found in the burning wreckage of the car used to bomb Glasgow airport.
However, police later discovered that the Sim card was actually over 300km away from Glasgow and in the possession of his second cousin who lives in Liverpool.
Legal proceedings against him have called Australian anti-terror legislation into question and embarrassed police who admitted to making mistakes in the case.