Government to alter legislation that will ensure two-thirds of a sentence are served

Emergency terrorism laws announced after the Streatham attack could be pushed through parliament by 27 February – just one day before a convicted terrorist who disseminated Islamic State propaganda via Twitter is due for automatic release.

Mohammed Zahir Khan, a shopkeeper from Sunderland, was sentenced to four years and six months in May 2018 for nine counts of sharing Islamist material and calling for “death to shia” Muslims.

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