Jailed terror recruiter who wanted to fight with IS set to be freed — but will escape deportation
A TERROR recruiter who wanted to fight with IS is set to be freed — but will escape deportation.
Aras Mohammed Hamid, 32, was jailed for seven years in 2017 after radicalising a fellow British-based Kurd.
Security service chiefs, police and jail counter-terror units were asked for reports before the decision was made to free him.
Hamid, also described as the mastermind behind plans to send fighters to a Kurdish unit of IS, will stay in the UK indefinitely because a move back to Iraq would breach his human rights.
Taxpayers are expected to pay hundreds of thousands of pounds for police to monitor him.
Sources fear he could try to recruit fellow extremists again.
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A source said: “This man is a proven danger. Members of the public will be rightly outraged to hear this man is going to be walking the streets a free man.
“He wanted to join IS and was a recruiter as well.”
Tory MP Nigel Mills said: “This is not somebody that should be free to roam the streets.”
Asylum-seeker Hamid, then from Coventry, was convicted of two counts of preparing for acts of terrorism.
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His co-defendant, Shivan Hayder Azeez, 21, of Sheffield, was jailed for three years.
Azeez had been sent to the UK by his family to keep him safe after battling extremists with the Kurdish Peshmerga group, Kingston crown court heard.
He was turned by Hamid and agreed to change sides and go with him to Iraq to fight for IS.