Overview

• Shahjahan has been released following a Parole Board decision confirmed publicly by the Ministry of Justice.
• He was convicted in 2012 for preparing terrorist attacks that discussed targets including Boris Johnson, Big Ben and the London Stock Exchange, after MI5 surveillance of a Stoke-on-Trent cell.
• He was automatically released at the halfway point in 2019 and recalled in 2020 for breaching licence conditions when tag data showed an unsanctioned visit to his wife.
• Parole was refused in 2023, and the Lord Chancellor formally entered a view opposing release in September 2024 before the board later approved it.
• The release has drawn fresh concern due to co-defendant Usman Khan’s 2019 Fishmongers’ Hall murders after his own early release, and GB News was credited with first reporting Shahjahan’s parole.