TWO weeks ago, a Derby terror suspect who was given a control order restricting his activities more than three years ago had a High Court appeal against the ruling thrown out.

The suspect, known as GG, was one of five Iraqi Kurds arrested on suspicion of plotting terrorist attacks in London and other cities across the UK, using cars packed with explosives.

He was arrested in a raid at his Derby home in October 2005, along with another suspect, known as NN, although both men were later released.

In August, Krenar Lusha, 29, was arrested at his home in Moore Street, Derby. He was allegedly part of a plot to kill PM Gordon Brown and former PM Tony Blair.

He is charged with possessing bomb-making recipes and four kilos of potassium nitrate – a vital component in gunpowder. He also faces four charges of possessing instructions on how to make bombs and is awaiting trial.

In February last year, Parviz Khan was jailed for life for plotting to kill a British Muslim soldier. Khan planned to lure the soldier with the promise of drugs and then film him being beheaded.

His birth certificate showed he was born at Derby City General Hospital in 1970 and lived with his family in Dairy House Road, Normanton, before moving to Birmingham.

Fellow Derby man Umran Javed was jailed for six years for shouting pro-terrorism remarks at a protest outside London's Danish embassy in February 2007, following the publication of cartoons of Mohammed.

And in August last year, members of Derby's Kurdish community were shocked after it was revealed that Mala Isa, a former Derby man gunned down in Iraq, may have had links to terrorism.

The most notorious Derby link to terrorism is the case of Omar Sharif. He travelled to a busy Tel Aviv bar on April 30, 2003, to kill himself and other customers by detonating a bomb inside his rucksack.

But Sharif's plan was thwarted when his bomb failed to detonate. The 27-year-old, of Northumberland Street, Normanton, fled the scene and his body was found in the sea two weeks later.

His accomplice, Asif Hanif, succeeded – his bomb killed three people, plus himself, and wounded 65.