Detained Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef sent an e-mail to an associate shortly after the failed UK terror attacks saying he would have to leave Australia in a hurry and did not mention visiting his ailing wife and child, according to evidence obtained by federal police.
The e-mail is not enough to charge Haneef and much would depend on how he conducted himself during interviews which resumed on Friday night, the Sydney Morning Herald quoted counter-terrorism officials as saying on Saturday.
Haneef and his family have said he planned to visit his wife and newborn daughter in his home town of Bangalore.
Federal police were sceptical. In an affidavit presented before a magistrate, an officer was quoted as saying he suspected Haneef “has not been entirely truthful” about his departure. Two sources have confirmed that much of that suspicion rests on an e-mail Haneef sent just before his departure and after news of the initial British arrests had been aired.