If anyone could be truly described as an unrepentant traitor to the United Kingdom and can be proven to have caused actual harm, rather than just being a gobshite, it is Anjem Choudary. This avowed jihadist has been released from prison half way through his four year prison term and been sent to live in a probation hostel in North London.

This decision, even though it fits in with usual prison service policy of releasing prisoners who have behaved well half way through the imposed sentence, looks like a very bad one in the circumstances. Firstly, Choudary has not engaged with deradicalisation programmes whilst in prison and secondly because he was considered to be so damaging to the safety and security of the prison because of the risk he would radicalise other prisoners, that he was kept separated from other inmates.

If anybody should have been kept in gaol in order to protect the public it is Anjem Choudary. This firebrand Islamic hate preacher is linked to at least 100 other jihadis including the two Islamic savages who murdered Fusilier Lee Rigby back in 2013. Choudary was gaoled because he was calling for support for the ISIS Islamic terror group and therefore crossed the line that divides the right to speak freely from the encouraging those who are a threat to the UK and its subjects.

Choudary is the worst of the worst and really does not deserve to be released early. He has not shown contrition, he has not moderated his views and still poses the risk that he will radicalise other Muslims. I understand that in some cases where people are being released early from imprisonment,including those who are being released on licence from life imprisonment, the prison authorities want to see some evidence that the prisoner understands that what they did was wrong and that they are showing contrition for it. This is not the case with Choudary and I find it utterly inexplicable that he is being given the reward of early release when he has done nothing to earn it.

Anjem Choudary is a threat to all of us, despite the restrictions that have been imposed on his communications, movements and ability to preach. He’s still a walking talking icon of Islamic hatred for the rest of us and his release is an affront to the idea of justice. It would have been far preferable to keep him caged. We in the United Kingdom no longer hang traitors or those who behave traitorously and the last execution for this offence was in 1948 When William ‘Lord Haw Haw’ Joyce was hung for his pro-Nazi radio broadcasts to the UK, but Choudary should not have been treated as leniently as he has been treated. I think that is right that the public ask some awkward questions as to why Choudary’s lack of repentance for his encouragement of Islamic sedition has seemingly not been taken into account by those who have approved of his release. If lack of repentance or cognition that what the offender has done is wrong is a factor in keeping caged murderers and paedophiles, then this lack of contrition and engagement with deradicalisation workers by Choudary should have kept him off of our streets.