UK - Why we need to hold Muslim terror suspects longer

Here's why.

There then followed a desperate race against time to find the concrete evidence, much of it hidden in encrypted computer files, to charge Barot.

As a direct result of the case police campaigned for a change in the law to allow them to hold terrorist suspects for longer than 14 days before charge.

The complexity of the case also convinced police and security services of the need to expand and improve high-tech investigative capabilities. During the case, 300 computers were seized and examined and 1,800 items of data storage equipment were checked.

Not to mention the multiple passports and identities Barot had.