Terror suspect Siddartha Dhar taunts ‘shoddy’ security services on Twitter

A terror suspect who skipped bail in Britain has apparently used Twitter to taunt the "shoddy" UK security services, saying he was able to "breeze through Europe" to join Islamic State despite being under investigation.

Siddartha Dhar, 31 - known as Abu Rumaysah on social media - apparently boasted in a series of tweets that he evaded the intelligence agencies and travelled to war-torn Syria. In one tweet on Wednesday, Dhar seems to pose with a rifle in one hand and a baby in the other, while the caption read: "With my newborn son. #GenerationKhilafa". The hashtag is a reference to Islamic State's self-declared caliphate, or "khilafah".

This followed tweets on the account - understood to belong to Dhar - which had called for others to emigrate to regions under Islamic State control. A tweet on Tuesday read: "What a shoddy security system Britain must have to allow me to breeze through Europe to the Islamic State." A later tweet read: "Hopefully soon we can join forces to crush the global Crusade against Islam and Muslims in the East and West."

Dhar was among nine men, including the radical preacher Anjem Choudary, arrested and questioned by police in September on suspicion of terrorism offences before being released on bail and ordered to return to police stations in December. He has yet to be charged with any offence.

Two weeks ago, prosecutors told Westminster magistrates' court that Dhar had evaded border controls, boarded a coach to Paris with his wife and children the day after being released on police bail and was likely to be in Syria.