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For any copyright, please send me a message. UK ministers will rush in emergency laws restricting terrorists' release from jail by February 27. It's understood the date is exactly one day before the next terror offender is due to be released on February 28 - with five more due for release in March. Today's announcement leaves Boris Johnson in a race against time to rush the laws through - and will act as a threat to the House of Lords not to stall the process. A Whitehall official said: "If the legislation is passed by February 27 we can prevent the automatic release of any further terrorist suspects who might pose a threat to the public." The new law - unveiled after terrorist Sudesh Amman was shot dead by police on the streets of Streatham, South London - will pass through the Commons by Thursday next week. It would then complete its journey through the House of Lords by February 25 with the intention of receiving Royal Assent from the Queen by February 27. , and Sunday's attack in Streatham by Sudesh Amman. Both men were convicted terrorists who were released from jail midway through their sentences in accordance with the current law. The new law - which looks set to be challenged in the High Court - will end automatic release halfway through a sentence for more than 200 convicted terrorists locked in British jails. Instead, offenders will not be considered for release until they have served two-thirds of their sentence. And no terrorists will be released before the end of their full custodial term unless the Parole Board agrees. It will stop the release of one terrorist offender on February 28 and five more in March. Crucially the move is a retrospective legal action - so experts say it is certain to be challenged in the courts, and the government is gearing up for a High Court battle. Human rights group Liberty has already said the "threat to break the law by changing people's sentences retrospectively" could "create more problems than it solves". Crossbench peer Alex Carlile, the government’s former independent reviewer of terror legislation, claimed a High Court challenge is unavoidable. “The decision to lengthen the sentences of people who have already been sentenced … may be in breach of the law,” he told BBC Newsnight. A Whitehall source said: "We took significant steps after London Bridge to firstly review all of the licence conditions and also to bring forward legislation to introduce tougher sentences. "But the case on Sunday shone a light on a particular issue which was a terrorist offender who had been given a relatively short sentence, so therefore was eligible for automatic release at the halfway point. "And the fact that in that circumstance we were powerless to prevent their
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