Convicted Islamist terrorists including those considered the highest risk to national security have seen their jail terms reduced on appeal following a landmark ruling last year.

Two men convicted of soliciting murder during the Danish cartoons protests in London, and others who provided support for the failed July 21 bombers are among those to have benefited from a new leniency in terror sentencing.

In 2008 three judges including Lord Phillips, then the lord chief justice, warned that courts risked boosting support for extremists by handing down excessive prison sentences.

“Care has to be taken to ensure that the sentence was not disproportionate to the facts of the particular offences,” the judges said as they cut the sentence of Abdul Rahman, who was convicted of disseminating terrorist propaganda in November 2007.

“If sentences were imposed which were more severe than the circumstances of the particular case warranted, that would be likely to inflame rather than deter extremism,” they added.

That ruling paved the way for a string of successful appeals. Analysis has shown that of the 26 terrorism cases to reach the court of appeal since then, 25 resulted in convicts having their sentences reduced.

People found guilty of terrorism offences are automatically freed having served half their sentences, thanks to government legislation passed in 2003, meaning that dozens of high risk offenders will be let out in the next 12 months.

Probation service unions have warned of the danger of “tragic” terrorist strike by an early-release prisoner because staff do not have the resources to keep track of so many people.

Up to 20 convicted terrorists are already living in bail hostels intended for conventional criminals like burglars and robbers.

“Due to the extraordinary number of successful appeals, scores more terrorists will be released,” Harry Fletcher of the probation service union Napo said yesterday. “Every single one that comes out will have to be supervised until their full sentence expires.”

Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, to give him his full ceremonial title, is Britain’s top Judge – former Lord Chief Justice and the first President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.

He is also someone who seems hell-bent on ensuring that Britain is Islamised to the fullest extent and to hell with what the public thinks.

Well known for his liberal-left views (he has been described as ‘radical’ by his peers), he appears to believe that prison doesn’t work (based, it is thought, on an experience he had once when he secretly joined a group of petty convicts on a community service work party).

This is the man that publicly backed the incorporation of Sharia Law into Britain. Yes, that Sharia Law, the one where a woman’s opinion is treated as half of a man, in terms of  her credibility as a witness. The same goes for any inheritance she may receive.

The one that is operating on a routine basis up and down Britain, with Lord Phillips’ blessing – in a country which supposedly enshrines women’s rights and equality in law.

Now it seems that his ‘community service epiphany’ is informing his opinion on Muslim terrorists who want to kill us, too. He argues that keeping them in prison too long upsets and ‘radicalises’ the Muslim community’.

Terrorists already serve only half of the sentence they are given in any case, so why on earth should they be further accommodated?

Admittedly, we’re no senior Judges, Lord Phillips – but we’d tend to go with the proposition that it’s very, very long sentences indeed that deter extremists and would-be extremists, not short ones – with immediate, unceremonial deportation at the end of them, for any who were not citizens when sentenced.

Lord Phillips is signally failing to protect the people of Britain; not only by his own actions and the frequent dissemination of his opinions, but also by the strong influence he brings to bear on the rest of the Judiciary, by dint of his position.

[Main story: The Telegraph]

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