No charge for 12 terror suspects
Updated on 22 April 2009
Police release all suspects without charge after episode which cost Britain's anti-terror chief his job. So did a terror plot ever exist?
They were seized at gunpoint in raids across the north west of England and have been questioned for two weeks. It prompted outraged calls to clamp down on Pakistani students in Britain.
But now the police have admitted all 12 are innocent and have released them without charge. 11 of them are now in the hands of the UK Border Agency which is trying to deport them.
In the last hour the chief constable of Greater Manchester denied that a mistake had been made. He said officers acted on intelligence, but did not have evidence to convince the Crown Prosecution Service and a judge.
