The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has “acknowledged” its error over SIM card.

 Peter Russo, lawyer of the UK terror plot accused, Dr Mohammed Haneef, conveyed this on Saturday to Deccan Herald over phone from Brisbane. He added, “they (AFP) have acknowledged the error about the SIM card...let us see what step the government takes now”.

 AFP had informed a Brisbane court last week that Haneef’s mobile phone SIM card was found in the burnt-out jeep at Glasgow airport after the failed terror attack. By stating so, AFP tried to convince the court that Haneef was, indeed, an accused in the Glasgow plot.

But British media later reported that the investigators in London did not find the SIM card in the jeep, but it was found at Liverpool eight hours after the attack.

 Mr Russo, however, refused to comment on what repercussions this new development would have on the case. He had stated that the open court would decide it and that August 8 (when the Federal Court will take up hearing on Haneef’s appeal against the government’s decision to revoke his visa) is the first opportunity for him to present this fact before the court. Haneef’s barrister Stephen Keim expressed his concern over the development.

 “It is certainly worrying that AFP did not bother to correct it even one week after it was officially recorded in the court...it has still remained uncorrected...the truth came out only after British sources made it public,” he stated, adding that AFP had messed up the investigation. He alleged that AFP actually knew the actual fact and it had acted under pressure. “I don’t think their British counterparts would have misled them. If misled, let them make it public...it is here where lies the actual truth,” Mr Keim said.