Abu Izzadeen is a British spokesman for Al Ghurabaa, a British Muslim organisation banned under the Terrorism Act 2006 for the glorification of terrorism.
15 Facts About Abu Izzadeen
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Abu Izzadeen was convicted on charges of terrorist fund-raising and inciting terrorism overseas on 17 April 2008 and sentenced to four and a half years in jail.
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Abu Izzadeen was released in May 2009, after serving three and a half years, including time on remand.
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Abu Izzadeen is a British citizen born on 18 April 1975 in Hackney, east London, to a Christian family originally from Jamaica.
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Abu Izzadeen trained and worked for a while as an electrician.
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Abu Izzadeen has three children with his wife, Mokhtaria, whom he married in 1998.
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Abu Izzadeen met Omar Bakri Muhammed and Abu Hamza al-Masri at Finsbury Park Mosque in the 1990s.
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Abu Izzadeen visited Pakistan in 2001, before the 11 September attacks, as part of Al-Muhajiroun; he said he went there to give a series of lectures.
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Abu Izzadeen said he had attended terror training camps in Afghanistan.
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Abu Izzadeen mocked the courage of journalists who were captured by insurgents.
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Abu Izzadeen has openly stated that he wishes to die as a suicide bomber.
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On 22 March 2017, Abu Izzadeen was incorrectly identified as the perpetrator of the 2017 Westminster attack by a number of news sources, including Channel 4 News and The Independent, until it emerged that he was still in prison.
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Abu Izzadeen was arrested again in a pre-dawn police raid on 24 April 2007 under the Terrorism Act 2000 "in connection with inciting others to commit acts of terrorism overseas and terrorist fundraising".
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On 17 April 2008, Abu Izzadeen was among six men convicted at Kingston upon Thames Crown Court of supporting terrorism, while the jury failed to reach a verdict on a third charge of encouraging terrorism.
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Abu Izzadeen was jailed for three and a half years.