A GROUP of men targeted in anti-terror raids 20 months ago want to Breitling Replica Watches know why police waited weeks to reveal an Pounds 83,000 investigation against them had been dropped.

Staffordshire Police and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) yesterday announced that no further action was to be taken against a "small group" of Stoke-on-Trent residents, who were suspected of promoting extremist views and radicalising vulnerable people. They said evidence gathered and reviewed during the investigation, which came following raids in Cobridge, Smallthorne and Tunstall in July 2008, did not offer a realistic prospect of conviction. But the force yesterday confirmed to The Sentinel that it received draft advice from the CPS in December and final advice in mid-January.

And two of those whose homes were raided now want to know why there was a delay in letting them know they were not to face prosecution. The police said it was because they were "carefully considering" the advice.

Abu Saif was 17 and staying at his sister's Cobridge home when police staged the raids.

The former Haywood High School pupil, now aged 18, said: "I didn't know when I might be raided again.

"For 20 months, they told us nothing and it has been terrible.

"I think it is disgusting how long the police have kept us waiting when they have known weeks ago. If a person is not a suspect any more, they should be told immediately."

Police said yesterday that a "small group of people" were targeted as a result of residents' concerns raised with neighbourhood officers.

They were not able to say yesterday exactly how many suspects were involved.

But investigators spent months going through more than 330,000 computer files, as well as CDs, DVDs and other multimedia items seized in the raids. It led to four files of evidence being submitted to the CPS over a 13-month period.

Stoke-on-Trent divisional commander Chief Superintendent Bernie O'Reilly said: "The considered view of the CPS is that, in respect of all the files we have submitted, there is not a realistic prospect of conviction.

"As a result of that advice, the investigation has been concluded."

A CPS spokesman said: "We have decided there is insufficient evidence to prosecute any individual for either terrorism, or public order offences." Some of those whose homes were raided were yesterday in Moorland Road, Burslem, manning a temporary stall from which they have been distributing literature promoting their Islamic beliefs for several years.

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Call centre worker Abu Sumayyah, from Cobridge, was one of those on the stall.

The 24-year-old former Haywood High School pupil said: "It has been ridiculous. How can anyone live their lives not knowing what is going on?" Raids trauma: Page 14

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