CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: “I am in no doubt that Anjem ¬Choudary poses a genuine, serious risk to national security when he returns to our streets. He is clearly a narcissist whose ¬attention-seeking behaviour is driven by a deep-seated need to be relevant and talked about. His time in prison, having served half of a five-and-a-half-year sentence for inviting support for IS — reduced his public profile very effectively. But I am pessimistic about the chances of it having changed his beliefs. So upon his release, expected to ¬happen tomorrow, he will probably return to the streets unreformed. Nevertheless, holding him in a separation unit will have shielded vulnerable targets inside from his influence. In other words, it has stopped him from radicalising others and may ¬potentially have averted future terrorist attacks. We need to develop a partnership with communities to manage terrorist offenders like Choudary together on release. While it is hugely important for us to have an effective security response, ultimately we need to answer very difficult questions including, why do some young Muslim men, born and raised in our country, want to kill us?”