US leant on Britain to jail detainees freed from Guantánamo Bay

Blair officials saw intelligence files showing no evidence' against UK detainees, according to a new book

Tony Blair's government was given special access to US intelligence files on Guantanamo Bay which revealed there was no credible evidence against the British detainees, a new book has claimed.

US officials hoped that any British detainees released from the notorious prison camp would be detained once they set foot in the UK or placed under strict surveillance. But officials who examined files on British detainees in a meeting in Washington in February 2004 found there was no significant evidence against them.