European judges have blocked the extradition of terror suspect Haroon Aswat, ruling that sending him to the US would breach his human rights.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) decided that Broadmoor patient Aswat's probable incarceration in a high security prison could "exacerbate his condition of paranoid schizophrenia".
The terror suspect and suspected ally of Abu Hamza is wanted by US prosecutors for allegedly plotting with Hamza to set up a terror training camp in Bly, Oregon.
Aswat is a suspected ally of Abu Hamza Hamza and four other terror suspects were extradited last year after the court rejected their appeal against the move - but Aswat's case was adjourned to allow judges more time to consider his mental health.
Aswat, who was born in 1974 and is being treated for schizophrenia, claimed that he would be at risk of ill-treatment inside the so-called supermax prison ADX Florence, in Colorado, if he was sent to America.
The Strasbourg court's decision came after it adjourned the case last April to obtain further submissions on the relevance of Aswat's schizophrenia to his claim.
Last year, the court ruled that five men, including Hamza, would not face ill-treatment if they were extradited to the US.
Hamza, Babar Ahmad, Seyla Talha Ahsan, Adel Abdul Bary and Khaled Al-Fawwaz were all removed from the country.
Hamza, who was serving a seven-year sentence in Britain for soliciting to murder and inciting racial hatred when he was extradited, has denied 11 counts of criminal conduct related to the taking of 16 hostages in Yemen in 1998 and advocating violent jihad in Afghanistan in 2001.
He is also accused of conspiring to establish the Oregon-based jihad training camp between June 2000 and December 2001. Aswat was charged with being Hamza's "co-conspirator".
:: Meanwhile, three members of an al Qaeda-inspired group that plotted to bomb the London Stock Exchange and build a terrorist training camp have had their indeterminate sentences quashed at the Court of Appeal.
Instead, the three judges imposed "determinate" custodial sentences of 17 years and eight months in the case of one of the men and 16 years in relation to the two others.
The Islamist extremists originally received the indeterminate sentences for public protection at London's Woolwich Crown Court in February last year.
Mohammed Shahjahan, now 29, was then ordered to serve a minimum term of eight years and 10 months, while fellow Stoke-on-Trent-based radicals Usman Khan, 22, and Nazam Hussain, 27, were ordered to serve at least eight years behind bars.
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