Foreword by Michael Mansfield QC
Dramatis Personae
Timeline
Significant Addresses
Introduction
1. The Trial
2. The Road from Algeria to the UK
3. Everything Changes on 9/11
4. Mohammed Meguerba
5. Arrests
6. Kamel Bourgass
7. What Ricin?
8. Backlash
9. Legacy
References
Index
Lawrence Archer is the telecoms engineer who was foreman of the
jury at the 2005 Ricin trial, and has followed the lives of the
acquitted defendants ever since, including attending their High
Court and immigration appeal hearings. He is co-author of Ricin!:
The Inside Story of the Terror Plot That Never Was (Pluto,
2010).
Fiona Bawdon is a freelance journalist. She writes on criminal and
civil justice issues for the national and specialist legal press.
She is the co-author of Ricin!: The Inside Story of the Terror Plot
That Never Was (Pluto, 2010).
Michael Mansfield QC is an English barrister specialising in
criminal defence work. He has often worked to overturn miscarriages
of justice, including the wrongful imprisonment of both the
Guildford Four and the Birmingham Six. He represented one of the
acquitted defendants in the Ricin trial. He is the co-author of
Ricin!: The Inside Story of the Terror Plot That Never Was (Pluto,
2010).
'A refreshing insight into how the government and security services
shamelessly seized on an alleged conspiracy to promote their 'war
on terror''
*Richard Norton-Taylor, Security Editor of the Guardian*
'This is a praiseworthy example of a jury, better placed than
anyone else to know what really goes on in our criminal justice
system, exposing how injustice occurs when fear of terrorism
distorts the objectivity of the prosecution process'
*Sir Geoffrey Bindman, civil liberties solicitor*
'The innocent suspects in Archer's shocking but highly insightful
book live in a world of deep suspicion. This world is prepared to
utilise information extracted under torture, to inflate and
conflate the threat of terrorism with immigration concerns and, to
justify a war of occupation in response to a terrorist plot that
only ever existed in the imagination of a government - a government
that lied to its own people and forgot to admit it. It is left up
to decent men like Lawrence Archer to help pick up the pieces of
the lives shattered by this unjust process'
*Moazzam Begg, Director of Cage*
'Gripping! I couldn't put it down. In telling it like it is,
Lawrence Archer and Fiona Bawdon have provided some reparation to
the innocent Algerians caught up in one of the UK's most
controversial anti-terrorist trials'
*Liz Fekete, author of A Suitable Enemy: Racism, Migration and
Islamophobia in Europe (Pluto Press, 2009)*
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