British Terror Chief Quits After Compromising Al Qaeda Investigation

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Get rich Quick: Pension fortune for blundering anti-terror chief

Anti-terror chief Bob Quick quit yesterday with a pension pot worth millions - despite admitting he came close to endangering an operation to smash a suspected Al Qaeda terrorist unit.

Mr Quick, who inadvertently revealed confidential details of the terror swoop while exiting his car for a Downing Street meeting, fell on his sword shortly after 8am after he lost the confidence of the Home Secretary.

The officer - who has had to make three public apologies in four months - made the devastating admission 'that my action could have compromised a major counter-terrorism operation'.

But it soon emerged that, with the pension package Mr Quick thrashed out on Wednesday evening, he would be resigning into the lap of luxury.

Aged 49, he leaves the Met - and the entire police service - with a guaranteed pension of more than £110,000 a year, or a £520,000 lump sum and about £85,000 a year in return for his 30 years of service.

He is also likely to pick up lucrative consultancy work and his income will be bolstered by his family's wedding car hire business run by his wife Judith.

Mark Wallace, campaign director of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: 'It is amazing that someone can make such a serious error and simply withdraw into a life of wealthy retirement.'

Mr Quick was summoned to the Home Office on Wednesday afternoon after his blunder in allowing a top secret document detailing the terrorist swoops to be photographed as he walked along Downing Street.

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