Abu Izzadeen | |
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Born | Trevor Richard Brooks 18 April 1975 Hackney, London, UK |
Nationality | British |
Children | 3 |
Conviction(s) | 2008, guilty of incitement to terrorism |
Criminal charge | Breaching the UK's Terrorism Act of 2006. |
Abu Izzadeen (Arabic: أبو عز الدين, Abū ‘Izz ad-Dīn; born Trevor Richard Brooks[1] on 18 April 1975) is a British spokesman for Al Ghurabaa, a British Muslim organisation banned under the Terrorism Act 2006 for the glorification of terrorism.[2] He was convicted on charges of terrorist fund-raising and inciting terrorism overseas on 17 April 2008[3] and sentenced to four and a half years in jail. He was released in May 2009,[4] after serving three and a half years, including time on remand. In January 2016, he was sentenced to two years imprisonment for breaching the Terrorism Act by leaving the UK illegally.[5]