A straight-A student who tried to assassinate an MP with two kitchen knives could rot in a maximum security prison for the rest of her life after her bid to be moved to an open prison was blocked at the last minute.
Al Qaeda-inspired Roshonara Choudhry, then 21, was jailed for life at the Old Bailey in 2010 for trying to murder Labour MP Stephen Timms in Newham, east London.
She attacked him with a three-inch kitchen knife at a constituency surgery on May 14, 2010, to ‘get revenge for the people of Iraq’ – to the shock of friends and teachers who had seen Choudhry as a star student and aspiring teacher.
