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		</div><p>British Ministers are rushing through emergency legislation to prevent the automatic release from prison of terrorist offenders halfway through their sentences.</p>
<p>The Terrorist Offenders (Restriction of Early Release) Bill is set to clear all its House of Commons stages today after it was formally introduced on Tuesday.</p>
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<p>Ministers want to get legislation onto the statute book by February 27, before the next terrorist prisoner comes up for release.</p>
<p>It follows the Streatham terror attack in England earlier this month, when Sudesh Amman stabbed two bystanders with a knife he had grabbed from a shop.</p>
<figure id="attachment_149405" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-149405" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-149405" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/3A15AC28-67EA-42EA-B3C7-5DB4FD8CACF1.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="400" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-149405" class="wp-caption-text">Police at the scene following the terror attack in Streatham High Road</figcaption></figure>
<p>The 20-year-old had been jailed for possessing and distributing terrorist documents in December 2018, but was freed midway through his sentence less than a fortnight earlier.</p>
<p>It was the second attack in three months to be carried out by a convicted terrorist after Usman Khan stabbed and killed two people at Fishmongers’ Hall near London Bridge in November.</p>
<p>He had been released nearly a year earlier halfway through a 16-year jail sentence.</p>
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<p>Once the legislation has cleared the Commons, it will go to the House of Lords where the Government has less control over the timetable.</p>
<p>However in an emergency business statement on Tuesday, the Leader of the Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg indicated that ministers expected peers to facilitate its swift passage.</p>
<p>“The urgency and the message coming from this House is very clear to them and therefore I expect them to handle this in a reasonable manner,” he told MPs.</p>
<p>The plans, which will affect around 50 prisoners, aim to make sure terrorist offenders serve two-thirds of their sentence before they are considered eligible for release, rather than the current halfway mark.</p>
<p>Before being freed they would need to be reviewed by a panel of specialist judges and psychiatrists at the Parole Board.</p>
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