Terror suspects lose detention challenge

Ten suspected terrorists detained in the UK without charge or trial today lost a Court of Appeal challenge to their internment.

Most of the foreign nationals at the centre of the ruling in London have been held in prisons since 2001.

Two of the ten have exercised their option to leave the UK rather than remain in detention.

The men challenged a ruling of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) that Britain's Home Secretary David Blunkett had “sound material” to back up his decision that they were a risk to national security.

Their lawyers had argued that evidence obtained by alleged torture of detainees in US camps should have been excluded by SIAC.

But the appeals were rejected today in a lengthy written ruling by Lord Justice Pill, Lord Justice Laws and Lord Justice Neuberger.

If the appeals had been successful the mens’ lawyers would have asked for the individual cases to be reconsidered by SIAC.