Summarize and humanize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in EnglishAn Islamist terrorist disciple of Abu Hamza is set to be freed from prison despite him still being declared a ‘risk to national security’. Haroon Aswat, 50, is expected to return to his family home in Yorkshire with a High Court judge saying he can be released in the ‘relatively near future’.It is understood the justice system has been unable to fully assess him due to his mental health treatment.He was jailed in 2015 in the US for 20 years having admitted to trying to start a terrorist training camp in Oregon.Aswat was visited by a British psychiatrist in America before he was deported back to Britain in 2022 where he declared: ‘I’m a terrorist.’He has been linked to the 7/7 London terror bombings which killed 52 people and has also threatened to kill Jews, Christians and certain groups of Muslims. Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp fears he could still be a danger and told The Sun: ‘Those who pose a danger to the public should be taken off our streets.’Mr Justice Robert Jay said there was ‘evidence of an ongoing risk’, but has issued a notification order upon his release. Haroon Aswat (pictured in 2015) is set to be freed from prison despite him still being declared a ‘risk to national security’ Abu Hamza al-Masri (left) riding in a car with Haroon Rashid Aswat in January 1999It means Aswat must continually notify the police about certain information and keep them up-to-date.These details include their address, their foreign travel details and their vehicle registration.Mr Justice Jay concluded: ‘These were very serious offences and there is evidence of ongoing risk.’A risk assessment in relation to terrorist offending is always inherently uncertain and in the present case is compounded by the mental instability of the defendant.’Overall, I am satisfied for the reasons that I have given that a notification order should be made in all the circumstances of this case.’A psychiatrist has deemed his treatment as being effective and his release from detention is expected in the relatively near future, with the understanding being that he will return to his family in Yorkshire.’ He added: ‘No formal terrorist risk assessment has been carried out since the defendant’s return here. The circumstances of his detention have precluded that. ‘However, on the basis of the material which is available the defendant has been assessed by various police officers — including the senior officer dealing with this case — that he remains a risk to national security.’ Dr Richard Taylor travelled to America in the summer of 2022 to prepare a report on Aswat.The report states that in 2017 Aswat made remarks to prison staff in support of al Qaeda and threatened violence towards them. Aswat pictured in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in 2022. He pleaded guilty in 2015 to trying to start a terrorist training camp in Oregon and was jailed in the USIn 2022 he sent letters which made demands and death threats, seemingly motivated by a terrorist ideology.Dr Taylor concluded that he openly endorsed an extremist ideology, however there was no evidence that Aswat was mentally ill.However he had had limited opportunity to address the extremist mindset and showed traits of glibness, superficial charm, charisma, intelligence and elements of manipulativeness and narcissism.Even when mentally stable he continued to express violent, extremist Islamic ideology, Dr Taylor found.The diagnosis showed a schizoaffective disorder with symptoms showing unpredictable and aggressive behaviour.Dr Taylor did not complete a full terrorist risk assessment but identified 15 of the 22 relevant factors in the government’s extreme risk guidance.He concluded: ‘There remains the risk of Islamic violent extremism motivated targeted terrorist offending behaviour given his threats to kill Jews, Christians and certain groups of Muslims.’There is also a risk of him influencing other vulnerable individuals, as when he is in an abnormal mental state his religious extremist rhetoric is amplified by mental illness.’A senior police officer, Detective Inspector Karen Bradley, who was involved in the case, concluded that Aswat, now 50, remains a risk to national security. Aswat has been linked to the 7/7 London bombings which killed 52 people in July, 2005Aswat was born and grew up in Yorkshire but moved to Wood Green in north London where he fell under the spell of hate preacher Abu Hamza – and together they planned a terror training camp in Oregon with Aswat moving to Seattle to organise it.He also spent time in Afghanistan and in Pakistan – where he met and associated with fellow Yorkshire terror sympathiser Mohammed Sidique Khan and his accomplice Shehzad Tanweer who would go on to mount the 7/7 bomings in London which killed 52 people on public transport in July 2005.Aswat served most of his sentence in America and returned to the UK in December 2022. He is currently detained at Bethlem Royal Hospital in Bromley, south east London.
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