The eight-year legal fight to deport radical cleric Abu Qatada from the UK has cost taxpayers more than £1.7m so far, the home secretary has said. In a letter to MPs, Theresa May said the total was £1,716,306, including £647,658 on legal aid for Abu Qatada. The Home Office had spent £938,630 fighting the case in UK courts and another £130,018 at the European Court of Human Rights, she said. Abu Qatada faces a retrial in Jordan on charges of [...]
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