A suspected al-Qaida terrorist who was plotting to use the deadly poison ricin has been jailed for life for the murder of a Special Branch detective in Britain, it can be revealed today.

THE widow and family of the British Special Branch officer stabbed to death during a police counter-terrorism raid visited the spot yesterday where he was killed.

A TERROR suspect whose arrest led to the death of a police detective was a failed asylum seeker on the run from the authorities, it emerged yesterday.

The widow of Detective Constable Stephen Oake, who was killed during a police raid on terrorist suspects in Manchester, today spoke of her “total devastation” at his death.

Three men were being questioned in the UK today after a police officer was stabbed to death and four others injured during a raid on terrorist suspects linked to last week’s discovery of the deadly poison ricin.