British hate preacher banned from leaving the UK due to terrorism fundraising conviction is arrested in Hungary… and offers only the Koran as ID
- Trevor Brooks, known as Abu Izzadeen, was stopped on train to Romania
- 44-year-old offered Islam's Holy Book when stopped by police on Saturday
- He was with second Briton who also served jail term for funding terrorism
- Police realised after men were held that they were banned from leaving UK
A
British hate preacher who is banned from leaving the UK after being
convicted for terrorism offences has been arrested in Hungary - where he
tried to use the Koran as his ID.
Trevor
Brooks, also known as Abu Izzadeen, an infamous Islamist extremist who
was jailed in 2008 for financing terrorism, was stopped by officers on
Saturday at Lokoshaza - a crossing point on the Hungarian border - while
bound for Romania on a train.
When
the 44-year-old was stopped Saturday, he reportedly presented officers
with Islam's Holy Book as his form of identification.
British hate preacher Trevor Brooks,
also known as Abu Izzadeen (pictured in 2006), who has been banned from
leaving the UK after financing terrorism, has been held in Hungary - and
gave officers the Koran for ID
Izzadeen,
a London-born former Christian who converted to Islam on the eve of his
18th birthday, was with a second British man, according to Hungarian
authorities.
He is believed to be Simon Keeler who has also served time in prison for funding terrorism.
Keeler,
44, was acquitted in July of planning to travel to Syria to join ISIS
after being found in the back of a lorry at Dover.
However, he was jailed for 15 months after admitting possession of false identity documents.
Police
said the pair were both were barred from leaving Britain without
permission. The two men were taken into custody by Hungarian police
because they did not have legal documents entitling them to stay in the
EU member state.
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It
only emerged that they were subject to a European arrest warrant after
they were detained, police spokeswoman Viktoria Csiszer-Kovacs told AFP.
The men are due to appear in court in Budapest to over their possible
extradition.
A
spokesman said it was unclear what the men had been travelling,
although it was possible they were on their way to Syria via Bulgaria
and Turkey.
There was no suggestion that the men were implicated in Friday's deadly attacks in Paris.
Izzadeen
was born to a Christian Jamaican family in London and worked as an
electrician. He gained notoriety in 2006 after heckling Britain's
then-home secretary John Reid live on television.
He
also refused to condemn the 7/7 bombings in London and described
then-prime minister Tony Blair and US President George W. Bush as the
'real terrorists' for invading Iraq and Afghanistan.
THE FATHER-OF-THREE RADICALISED AS A TEEN WHO GAINED NOTORIETY AFTER CALLING THE HOME SECRETARY AN 'ENEMY OF ISLAM'
Abu Izzadeen, an outspoken Muslim
activist, gained notoriety in 2006 after launching a furious tirade
against then Home Secretary John Reid
Abu
Izzadeen, an outspoken Muslim activist, gained notoriety in 2006 after
launching a furious tirade during a speech to Muslims by then Home
Secretary John Reid.
In
front of TV cameras, he denounced Mr Reid as a 'tyrant' and an 'enemy
of Islam' before being escorted out by security guards.
He
also made inflammatory speeches at the Regent's Park mosque in central
London on November 9 2004 - when U.S. forces began their battle for the
city of Fallujah in Iraq.
Izzadeen
denounced the fighting in speeches made inside the mosque and later,
after a clash with the Muslim authorities, out on the street. They were
part of the notorious extremist group Al-Muhajiroun.
The
married father of three later urged a boycott of the Poppy Appeal,
claiming anyone who wore a poppy to mark Remembrance Day ‘supported the
murder of Muslims’.
In 2008, Izzadeen was jailed for four and a half years for terror-related offences.
The
former electrician and fluent Arabic speaker was sentenced to two and a
half years for the offence of fundraising for terrorism and four and
half years for inciting terrorism overseas, to be served concurrently.
But
he was released in May the following year after his sentence was cut on
appeal. He was later recalled to prison for breaking his release
conditions, related to good behaviour.
Izzadeen
was born in Hackney, East London, and has a Jamaican background. He was
raised as a Christian but converted to Islam when he was 17.
He
became a hard-liner after coming across the preachings at Finsbury Park
mosque of radical cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed, also known as the
'Tottenham Ayatollah'.
Izzadeen eventually chose a new name, which means Might of the Faith in Arabic, and immersed himself in his new religion.
He
has also been associated with Islamist firebrand Anjem Choudary. Like
Choudary, he has lived off the state, claiming up to £1,000 a month in
benefits while living in a council house in Leyton, East London.
Despite
marrying when he was 23, he later advertised on the internet for three
more wives and said he wanted ‘more than nine children’.
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