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'Allow intercept evidence'

Sir Ken Macdonald, the former head of the Crown Prosecution Service and director of public prosecutions has called once again for intercept evidence to be admissible in UK courts.

Speaking after three men were found guilty of plotting to kill thousands of people by blowing up planes with home-made liquid bombs, Sir Ken sad that intercepts provided "the best evidence you can have. People convicting themselves out of their own mouths".

Andy Hayman, former assistant commissioner for specialist operations at Scotland Yard, said that the investigation "stopped what I think would have been our UK 911".

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