Disciples of Choudary the hate preacher

MEMBERS of the ‘Musketeers’ terror cell met hate preacher Anjem Choudary days before they began plotting their attack, it can now be revealed.

Text messages not seen by the jury show Mohibur Rahman, 33, and Tahir Aziz, 38, travelled to see the radical cleric on May 8 last year as the group were plotting a knife and pipe bomb atrocity.

That night at 11.46pm, Choudary sent a text mes- sage to Rahman, which read: ‘Dear brother did you reach home yet safe and sound?’

Choudary, leader of banned group Al-Muhajiroun was awaiting trial for inviting support for IS. He was later convicted and jailed. As part of his bail conditions, he was banned from contacting a list of extremists, and he was later remanded into custody when it emerged he had seen Rahman.