Abu Hamza al-Masri, the most notorious of Londonistan's radical preachers, could return to Britain's streets after plans to deport him to stand trial in the US faltered.
US prosecutors had hoped to try the bearded cleric with attempting to set up a terrorist training camp in Oregon after he completed his seven-year jail sentence in the UK.
Now, however, a key US witness against Abu Hamza, James Obama, said he might not testify.
The news will give a much needed boost to the hook-handed cleric who has been hit by a series of reverses in recent days.
Two weeks ago the Daily Mail reported that Abu Hamza would be hit with a £1 million legal aid bill.
The newspaper said that the huge expenses incurred during his trial could force the Egyptian to sell his home in London.
And only a few days before that, Abu Hamza's wife had said that the cleric was being bullied in prison.
She told the Sunday Telegraph that he had been subjected to racist and Islamophobic abuse.