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17/11/2006
Death Row Briton returning from Pakistan
A British man who has spent 18 years in jail in Pakistan has been released from jail, one day after his sentence was reduced from the death penalty to life imprisonment.
Mirza Tahir Hussain, 36, from Leeds in West Yorkshire, is now on a plane from Pakistan returning to the UK.
He was convicted of the murder of taxi driver Jamshed Khan in 1989. Although he was originally acquitted of the murder by a High Court, an Islamic Sharia court found him guilty and sentenced to death in 1998.
Hussain had always denied murdering the taxi driver, claiming that he acted in self-defence after Mr Khan tried to sexually assault him.
He had been due to be executed during the Prince of Wales' recent visit to Pakistan, but the execution was delayed after the Prince contacted Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz.
President Pervez Musharraf commuted the sentence from the death penalty to life imprisonment on Thursday.
Both Prince Charles and Prime Minister Tony Blair had appealed for clemency, along with other European politicians and human rights groups.
Mr Khan's family are reported to be angry at the decision and it is understood that they are planning to appeal the decision.
(KMcA)
Mirza Tahir Hussain, 36, from Leeds in West Yorkshire, is now on a plane from Pakistan returning to the UK.
He was convicted of the murder of taxi driver Jamshed Khan in 1989. Although he was originally acquitted of the murder by a High Court, an Islamic Sharia court found him guilty and sentenced to death in 1998.
Hussain had always denied murdering the taxi driver, claiming that he acted in self-defence after Mr Khan tried to sexually assault him.
He had been due to be executed during the Prince of Wales' recent visit to Pakistan, but the execution was delayed after the Prince contacted Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz.
President Pervez Musharraf commuted the sentence from the death penalty to life imprisonment on Thursday.
Both Prince Charles and Prime Minister Tony Blair had appealed for clemency, along with other European politicians and human rights groups.
Mr Khan's family are reported to be angry at the decision and it is understood that they are planning to appeal the decision.
(KMcA)
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