Scottish Daily Mail

RABBLE ROUSERS WHO WANT TO MARCH TO REVOLUTION The Left-wing lawyer

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AN outspoken lawyer who once said no Muslim should ever cooperate with British police joined demonstrat­ors outside Kensington Town Hall.

Mohammed Tasnime Akunjee was responsibl­e for a series of toxic slurs online in the days following the Grenfell Tower inferno.

He is at the centre of a tightknit circle of Left-wing community activists, including other lawyers and campaigner­s.

Writing online beside footage of the burning building, he said: ‘I bet you some Tories look at that video and see a solution to benefits claims... sick people.’

Claiming the tragedy will ultimately reveal ‘criminal profiteeri­ng and neglect for life’, Mr Akunjee also called for ‘some Tories’ to be wrapped in the cladding said to be partly responsibl­e for the blaze.

He said: ‘Ask them if they trust in fire safety regs for council housing... people need to go to jail for a long time on this one.’

Mr Akunjee once represente­d Ibrahim Hassan, a close friend of Lee Rigby’s killers who was arrested after giving a TV interview.

Hassan, also known as Abu Nusaybah, accused MI5 of being complicit in his torture in Kenya and driving him towards extremism.

Mr Akunjee, a graduate of the University of Sussex, has gone on to specialise in representi­ng Muslim families, in particular those accused of terrorist offences.

He said no Muslim should cooperate with the British police because the Government’s Prevent counter-terror policy is ‘straightfo­rward, paid-for spying on the community’.

The lawyer lists controvers­ial campaign group Cage – dubbed ‘apologists for terror’ – among his ‘likes’ on his Facebook page and includes its founder Moazzam Begg as a friend.

He follows its controvers­ial research director Asim Qureshi on Twitter. Mr Qureshi sparked a firestorm of controvers­y by describing Islamic State butcher Mohammed Emwazi, known as Jihadi John, as a ‘beautiful young man’.

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Web slurs: Mohammed Tasnime Akunjee attacked the Tories

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