MINISTERS are today calling for the 74 freed jihadis to be sent back to jail after the Streatham terrorist was let out early.
Sudesh Amman, 20, was released automatically from prison despite telling an inmate he wanted to murder an MP.
He walked out of Belmarsh Prison 10 days before he stabbed two innocent strangers in Streatham on Sunday.
Primary school teacher and mum-of-one Monika Luftner, 51, was knifed in the back when she was cycling home.
She screamed “he stabbed me” in front of terrified shoppers just moments after dropping her 12-year-old daughter off with pals.
Andrew Bridgen, MP for North West Leicestershire, is now calling for terrorists who are “likely to reoffend” to never be released.
He said it is “far cheaper” to keep extremists in prison than to monitor their movements “24/7” – which an army of cops was doing when Amman was freed.
SEND THEM BACK
Mr Bridgen believes terrorists should be sent back to prison if their licencing conditions are broken or if their behaviour causes authorities any concern.
He told The Sun Online: “Terrorists, child molesters and abusers – I am not convinced these people get better or are rehabilitated in prison.
“We need to have indeterminate sentences. Where we believe they are likely to reoffend, they can’t get out.
“If on release it is taking 25 police offers working 24/7 to try and prevent them from committing more terror acts, it’s far cheaper to keep them in prison.
“These people have been radicalised, even with de-radicalisation, they have to be prone for a reversion for contact with ISIS propaganda.
We need to have indeterminate sentences. Where we believe they are likely to reoffend, they can’t get out.
“I think they are all being monitored. If their behaviour causes any concern whatsoever, then their licencing conditions should be revoked and they should go back to prison.”
It is understood the Ministry of Justice will now be reviewing licence conditions of those who have been in prison for terror offences and let out.
Some 74 have been freed and assessments will be made to see whether their risk has changed in wake of the Streatham attack.
A source told The Sun Online that changes to conditions could include a curfew, tags or being sent back to jail.
Those who are released from now on will face increased weekly probation officer meetings.
It comes after Boris Johnson's new laws to crack down on terrorists getting out of prison early could be challenged in court by human rights lawyers.
NEW TERROR LAWS
Boris' emergency legislation would stop automatic release so prisoners with terror-related convictions can't be released into the public before their sentence is up.
It would apply to prisoners already behind bars.
The scrapping of automatic release was announced last night by Justice Secretary Robert Buckland following the latest terror attack in London.
Mr Buckland said offenders would not be considered for early release until they had served two-thirds of their sentence and that no terrorist would be released before the end of their full sentence.
But legal experts have said it would "certainly" be challenged by human rights lawyers acting for terrorists.
Former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation Lord Carlile told BBC Newsnight: "I think it may have gone too far."
He said: "The decision to lengthen the sentences of people who have already been sentenced, and therefore expecting to be serving half the sentence the judge imposed on them, may be in breach of the law.
"It is certainly going to be challenged… there will certainly be court cases about that particular provision.”
Lawyers could fight to have the new rules overturned, arguing it is unfair to apply the laws retrospectively to prisoners' original sentences.
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