Adel Abdel Bary is back among us. He has been given, one might say, a second chance to be a good citizen. Or a fresh opportunity to wreak havoc.
Championed by the Hard Left and Amnesty International as a ‘respected human rights lawyer’ and ‘prisoner of conscience’, and granted political asylum by a complacent Tory administration which cosied up to Islamists, the Egyptian lawyer had made his home in a fashionable corner of West London where he and his wife raised six children on benefits provided by the munificent British state.
That he has not been seen there for some time is down to one reason a rather uncomfortable one for those who painted him as a hero. Bary has only recently been released from a 25-year prison sentence in America for his role in one of the world’s worst terrorist atrocities. And back to Britain he has come.