The SNP are blocking plans for the United Kingdom to give terrorists lie detector tests as a condition of parole.
Tough new laws tightening up early release for prisoners convicted of terror offences have been drawn up by HM’s Government, however, SNP ministers are refusing to implement a part of the plan – polygraphing terrorist offenders to check they are not fibbing about being reformed characters.
The Counter Terror and Sentencing Bill will see a minimum sentence of 14 years incarceration for terror offenders.
The UK’s independent reviewer of terror legislation Jonathan Hall QC published a long-awaited report into the failings that allowed crazed Khan to kill while on parole.
He said: “Polygraph testing is a sensible additional tool for obtaining information relevant to risk posed by Terrorist Offenders.”
“The results are likely to assist in determining whether the offender is complying with their licence conditions… and can assist police to consider risk factors”.
Despite the expert opinion, Scottish Justice minister Humza Yousaf wrote in a letter to the UK Government that he was “unconvinced by policy merits of the use of polygraph in Scotland.”
The SNP have blocked UK plans to give terrorists lie detector tests as part of parole conditions, it has been reported. Most Brits (54%) are supportive of lie detector tests to prove de-radicalisation, with only 24% against it https://t.co/90P38vMJWn pic.twitter.com/NrryoyUbq6
— YouGov (@YouGov) September 3, 2020
The leading Scottish Conservative Andrew Bowie branded the SNP behaviour “an utter disgrace”.
The West Aberdeenshire MP added: “Typical SNP: weak on terroism, weak on security.
“When you look back on the history of the SNP and terrorists – not least the release of the Lockerbie bomber – they have consistently been weak on protecting the safety of Scots.”
He urged Scottish ministers to “immediately take action to make sure this important law is applied across the entire United Kingdom or Scotland will be left weaker than England and Wales.”
A recent survey by YouGov shows the SNP do not agree with the majority of British public polled on that day, YouGov surveyed 2579 British adults asking: ‘Convicted terrorists out of prison on licence will face lie detector tests to prove they have been de-radicalised. Do you think this is a good idea or a bad idea?’
54% answered a good idea, 24% a bad idea, and 22% answered don’t know.
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