Terrorism (Detention and Human Rights)

I understand the point perfectly, but police investigating an alleged terrorist plot may well go to someone’s house and find three or four passports of different nationality. There is clear evidence that the individual involved has committed serious passport offences. I would expect him to be charged with and prosecuted for those offences in any event, and if he is convicted he will receive an appropriate penalty and he may, if he is a foreign national, be deported. If that facilitates further inquiry and investigation into the terrorist conspiracy, that is the good fortune of the investigators. As a prosecutor who has been involved in many prosecutions in the past, I feel entirely comfortable with that. What one cannot do is trump up charges or take something that is utterly trivial and use that as an excuse. In that respect, I see the distinction.