July 7 widow attacks detention bid

Hasina Patel was arrested and questioned in the wake of the attacks just over two years ago in which four men strapped with bombs let off their weapons on the Tube and a bus, claiming the lives of 52 innocent people.

She fears increasing the detention period to 56 days is similar to a prison sentence.

Her husband, a British-born Muslim from Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, appeared to be a quiet, mild-mannered man. He had a daughter and worked with children.

However, he was an extremist with an intent to kill as many innocent people as possible.

Hasina Patel spoke out in an interview with Sky News's Julie Etchingham in which she also condemned what her husband did and described how it changed her life forever.

On what she would say to Mr Brown of his proposals to extend detention without charge to 56 days, she said she would take her chance to make a direct appeal.

She said: "I think for anyone who's experienced it, like now I have, then you know how difficult it is and it's a punishment in itself.

"And for some people who are innocent, it's like you're guilty until proven innocent. And it's doing in effect a week's sentence or if it's say increased to 56 days, to me it's like a sentence without charge or trial.

"You're doing two months, you know, with nothing to back that. When people get arrested, it can ruin your life. It ruins relationships."