Clarke may have compromised most high-profile terrorist trials

BRITISH Home Secretary Charles Clarke may have endangered some of the most high-profile terrorist prosecutions yet in Britain by distributing details of three sub-judice cases.

In a bid to win backing for new terror powers, he distributed a seven-page Scotland Yard document which contained details of three terrorist cases which are currently sub-judice. The contents of the case studies cannot be repeated in full by the Press Association because they would amount to contempt of court.

But they included details of evidence against a number of defendants and their behaviour in police interviews.