Overview

• The Parole Board announced on May 20 that imprisonment is no longer necessary for public protection after reviewing Choudhry’s progress and risk assessments.
• Choudhry stabbed Sir Stephen Timms twice in the stomach at a Beckton Globe community centre surgery in May 2010 after being radicalised online by al Qaida clerics.
• She has served her 15-year minimum term during a life sentence and engaged in prison programmes aimed at understanding extremist beliefs and managing her emotional wellbeing.
• Her release licence imposes conditions including residence at a designated address under curfew, an exclusion zone barring access to Timms’s constituency area and ongoing monitoring.
• Timms has participated in restorative justice talks with Choudhry and indicated he would be willing to meet her before her release.