 There had been a blanket ban on the media reporting on anything involving the Bourgass case for two years until the trial had ended.In October 2005, Eliza Manningham-Buller, the Director General of MI5, revealed that the evidence which uncovered the so-called ricin plot came from Mohamed Meguerba, a man who jumped bail and fled to Algeria where he was detained and probably subjected to torture.On 13 April 2005, Jon Silverman, a legal affairs correspondent for the BBC wrote