A student who tried to murder a Labour MP after watching radical online lectures by an al Qaida cleric can be released from prison, the Parole Board has said.
00:00The former King's College London student knifed the East Ham MP Sir Stephen Timms who is also now the Minister of State for Social Security and Disability in May of 2010.
00:15This happened as he held a constituency surgery at the Becton Globe Community Centre in East London, smiling and pretending she was going to shake hands with the MP before stabbing him.
00:30Roshanara was arrested and told detectives the stabbing was punishment and to get revenge for the people of Iraq.
00:39She was jailed for life 15 years later and after a parole board hearing on May 20th this year a panel decided she can now be freed from jail and this is in line with her sentence as it included a minimum term of 15 years.
00:58A decision summary said after considering the circumstances of her offending, the progress made while in custody and the evidence presented at the hearing and in the dossier the panel was satisfied that imprisonment was no longer necessary for the protection of the public.
01:22The document says that at the time of the attempted murder Chowdhury who is now 36 had risk factors of problems with family relationships, development of extreme beliefs about the world and a willingness to use violence to address perceived injustices.
