Victoria Brittain writes today about the plight of Abdul Kahar, who was shot in the police raid on his house back in the summer.
His courage is speaking out after his release without charge against what happened gave us a window into the anatomy of a terror raid - what happens and the aftermath.
Unfortunately, Brittain reports that Kahar regrets ever complaining publicly at all due to what happened to him next. The subsequent accusations - again without charge - of child porn, have left him even more of a broken man:
But today Mr Kahar regrets the press conference, and feels it sparked police and media persecution of his family. The child porn allegations retraumatised him, he says, and he feels paranoid and vulnerable.
We owe this man and his brother a debt of gratitude for having the fortitude to stand up after such a tumultuous event. We have to remember there have been numerous such raids on households in this country, with the same eventual outcome. In the days after this, the police denied reports that 3000 Muslim homes had been raided, only for them to swiftly remove the statement from their website.
I bet you Marty is upset the keystone cops didn't to silence him when they had the chance.
Posted by: DrM | 30 November 2006 at 07:05 PM