Assuming of course that he goes to prison. He might get freedom. On the other hand, he might well get something worse than prison. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanging#Jordan
He might get something worse - and, by all accounts, he deserves it - but there have been no hangings in Jordan for nearly twenty years, so prison it would probably be.
Can't we just take him to the Jordanian Embassy? We'd then be extraditing him to Jordan and keeping him in the UK at the same time.
I may be about to ruffle a few feathers here but I can't find myself blaming either the European Courts or the Judges in this country for the situation which has arisen. He was tried in his absence in 2000 in Jordan, but it was also subsequently admitted that torture had been used on witnesses - therefore, any verdict made then is null and void as far as the European court is concerned. There is no guarantee, either based on past practice, or on their constitution, to prevent the same thing happening again if he were extradited to Jordan. As far as our Judges are concerned, we may not like their decision but we can surely understand it - he has spent 9 years in prison here , apparently 2 for initial questioning and a further 6 and a half for passport irregularities. I guess that the Judge thought that there had to be some limit to the amount of time you can lock someone up without actually charging them with anything. So, why no charge in 9 years ? And why was he granted asylum here in the first place ? Surely the mistakes were made here in the past and we shouldn't be using the European Courts as a scapegoat. Like it or not he can't be extradited anywhere else either without Jordan's permission - truly a bizarre situation but largely one of our own making. This is not to say that I don't find it alarming that a professed preacher of hate, who is not allowed into any reputable Mosque in Europe and who has apparently proven connections to organized murder, is close to walking British streets albeit with an electric tagging system and for only 2 hours per day.
