An Asian lawyer who was suspended after joking that she was a “friend” of Osama bin Laden’s two weeks after the September 11 attacks has been awarded £600,000 ($1,060,980) in compensation after a seven-year legal battle.

Halima Aziz, who worked for the Crown Prosecution Service in Bradford, was wrongly accused of provoking a riot by allegedly expressing anti-US sentiments and blaming the 2001 twin towers terrorist attacks on “Jews’’.