MINISTERS were blasted last night for axing powers used to ban a terror suspect feared to be plotting a Mumbai-style massacre from living in London.
Home Secretary Theresa May unveiled plans earlier this year to water down restrictions on terror suspects - so-called control orders.
Her blueprint included axing the power to ban suspects from living in an entire city.
But it has emerged it was used this year to stop a British-Nigerian terror suspect living in London.
Known only as CD, he was thought to be planning an atrocity on the scale of the Mumbai terror attacks that rocked India in 2008.
Home Office lawyers revealed in a recent court case, that he had been to Syria for terror training.
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CD had also attended an extremist training camp in Cumbria in 2004 and had made a series of attempts to buy an arsenal of weapons.
MI5 have warned the father-of-two is a key figure in a group of Islamic fanatics in North London.
But he could not be banned from living in the capital under Ms May's new terrorist prevention and investigation measures - or TPIMs.
The system only lets courts exclude suspects from small areas, specific buildings or streets.
A Home Office spokesman insisted: "TPIMs mean suspected terrorists who were unable to be prosecuted cannot go freely about their terrorism-related activities."
Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said: "Does the Home Secretary think it will protect the public to remove a power she deemed necessary for national security only a few months ago?"
Source http://www.thesun.co.uk
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