Hate preacher Abu Hamza begs for return to a UK jail

HATE preacher Abu Hamza desperately wants to come back to the UK – after complaining that life in his American jail is “too tough”.

The former imam – notorious for his inflammatory sermons at Finsbury Park mosque in north London – is demanding a swift return to the British prison system.

The 59-year-old is apparently “hopeful” about his appeal to transfer and his lawyers have said he would return to a UK jail “in a second” if he could.

Hamza was extradited to the US five years ago after the British Government spent a decade and almost £1million in legal fees trying to boot him out of the UK.

He was given a life sentence for terrorism and kidnapping offences in New York in January 2015 and has since been mostly kept in solitary confinement in a special unit.

He complains of “inhuman and degrading” conditions in the “supermax” prison in Florence, Colorado, which “breach his human rights”.

Using his real name, Mostafa Kamel Mostafa, court documents give details of his “cell-sized cage”.

Egyptian-born Hamza says the cell is unsuitable for a double amputee and “the stumps in both arms are subject to regular outbreaks of infection, increasing in severity”.

The appeal reveals how, while in Belmarsh prison, south-east London, he could mingle with other inmates, would be seen by a nurse or doctor five times a week and had daily access to a healthcare aide. He now has just “one hour per day” of recreation time.

Hamza, who is blind in one eye and suffers from diabetes and psoriasis, must take at least two showers a day because of a neurological condition Hamza, left, and an illustration of his cell in the ‘supermax’ Colorado jail, right that causes excessive sweating, it has been claimed.

His lawyers are demanding that he now be moved from the prison, claiming that his treatment breaches Article 3 of the UK Human Rights Act, which prohibits torture and inhuman or degrading treatment.

Michael Bachrach, one of Hamza’s appeal lawyers, revealed: “Abu Hamza would go back to second if he could.

“We strongly believe that the conditions of his confinement violate the expectations of the European Convention On Human Rights and the promises that were made by the United States Government to the [British and European] courts as part of the extradition process.” Belmarsh in a