FORMER Al Qaeda suspect was flown back to Britain on a luxury jet yesterday – at Government expense.Now taxpayers face a massive bill for his new life on benefits.
Alleged torture victim Binyam Mohamed, 30, stepped off a twin-engined Gulfstream at an RAF base after more than six years as a US prisoner being held in Guantanamo Bay.
Accompanied on the flight by two Foreign Office officials, two Metropolitan Police officers and a doctor, Ethiopian Mohamed’s return to his adopted country cost an amazing £120,000.
Last night, he was preparing to apply for indefinite leave to remain in the UK and receive a possible £21,600-a-year in benefits and allowances.
That’s around £5,000 more than earned by a frontline British soldier risking his life to fight Mohamed’s alleged Taliban associates in Afghanistan.
The former detainee, a failed asylum seeker who was once granted British resident status, may also try to sue the British Government for hundreds of thousands of pounds in damages.
Foreign Secretary David Miliband came under fire for saying he was “pleased” Mohamed – once accused of plotting terror attacks on New York – was back on British soil.
As MPs and campaigners vented their fury, Downing Street denied suggestions that Gordon Brown agreed to take him back in return for being the first European leader to meet President Barack Obama at the White House next week.
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