Lawyers for Khobaib Hussain, Naweed Ali, Mohibur Rahman and Tahir Aziz, convicted a decade ago of plotting a UK terror attack, are hopeful that evidence from the undercover policing inquiry will help reopen their case. The men were snared via a fake delivery firm, Hero Couriers, run by undercover officers, and convicted after MI5 found a partially built pipe bomb, a suspected handgun and a cleaver in a work vehicle; their lawyers have long argued the undercover officer known as Vincent planted the evidence, a claim rejected by the jury.
Lawyer Gareth Peirce has submitted further evidence to the Criminal Cases Review Commission, including inquiry testimony from November last year in which an undercover officer's own managers reportedly believed he had concocted a gun plot to frame an animal rights activist. The CCRC says its review is ongoing and it cannot comment further.
West Midlands police maintains the convictions are safe, citing findings from the original judge and a 2018 Court of Appeal ruling that found no evidence the weapons were planted and 'ample circumstantial evidence' against each defendant. Hussain's sister Mariam says the family continues to press the CCRC for updates and describes living with the case daily as a decade-long ordeal.
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