Notorious hate preacher Abu Hamza is reportedly 'begging' to come back to the UK because he's scared of catching coronavirus in his high security US prison.
In letters from his cell diabetic Abu Hamza claimed it would be a 'death sentence' if he contracted the virus, The Sun reports.
The hook-handed former imam, currently serving life in the ADX Florence in Colorado, US, reportedly wrote that he could suffer 'brain damage, failure of organs and amputation to more limbs.'
He has also claimed that the confiscation of items including his electric toothbrush has created 'poor hygiene conditions.'
The paper reports that US prosecutors are opposing Hamza's pleas after other complaints were declined in October.
They reportedly say the prison is taking steps to stop the spread of Covid and that his health conditions were being 'properly managed.'
In August it was reported that Hamza, 62, was suing the US authorities over 'cruel' conditions at America's most secure prison.
The former imam of Finsbury Park mosque in north London had claimed he was deprived of sunlight in his cell and complained he had to tear open food packages with his rotting teeth after his hooks were removed by the authorities.
In a civil lawsuit filed against William Barr, the US attorney general, he said he was suffering from “stress and anxiety”, The Times reported.
He also said he had been denied any family visits since 2012, when he was extradited to New York to go on trial on terrorism charges.
Hamza was jailed for life in 2015 when New York Federal Court judge Katherine Forrest told him he would never be freed again.
He had been found guilty of 11 terrorism and kidnapping charges, following a 10-year battle by US authorities to extradite him to the States.
In Manhattan Federal Court he was convicted over his role in the 1998 kidnapping in Yemen of 16 foreign tourists, of whom four were killed, and of conspiring to set up a militant training camp in Bly, Oregon in late 1999.
Hamza was also found guilty of providing material support to bin Laden's terror network, of wanting to set up a computer lab for the Taliban and sending recruits for terror training in Afghanistan.
